Checklist of Essex Grasshoppers and Crickets
Nomenclature follows Haes and Marshall (1988)
Order ORTHOPTERA
Sub Order Ensifera
Superfamily Tettigonioidea
Family Tettigoniidae
Subfamily Meconematinae
Meconema thalassinum Oak Bush Cricket
Subfamily Tettigoniinae
Tettigonia viridissima Great Green Bush Cricket
Subfamily Decticinae
Pholidoptera griseoaptera Dark Bush Cricket
Platycleis albopunctata Grey Bush Cricket
Metrioptera roeselii Roesel's Bush Cricket
Subfamily Conocephalinae
Conocephalus discolor Long-winged Conehead
Conocephalus dorsalis Short-winged Conehead
Subfamily Phaneropterinae
Leptophyes punctatissima Speckled Bush Cricket
Superfamily Grylloidea
Family
Subfamily
Gryllidae
Gryllinae
Acheta domesticus
Gryllus campestris
House Cricket
Field Cricket
Family Gryllotalpidae
Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa
Mole Cricket
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