Insects and Spiders: Bush Crickets and Grasshoppers

Species list for Bush Crickets, Grasshoppers and allied insects recorded in Hastings and St Leonards

Grey Bush Cricket

Oak Bush Cricket: Meconema thalassinum
common
sites: all
sightings: June to November

Great Green Bush Cricket: Tettigonia viridissima
local (rare in Hastings, possibly extinct)
sites: cemetery
sightings: July to November

Dark Bush Cricket: Pholidoptera griseoaptera
common
sites: Country Park, Filsham
sightings: July to November

Grey Bush Cricket: Platycleis albopunctata
nationally scarce
sites: Country Park, castle rocks
sightings: July to October

Roesel's Bush Cricket: Metrioptera roeselii
nationally scarce (in Hastings only one record from Marline Valley in 2003)
sites: Marlline Valley
sightings: July to October

Long-winged cone-head: Conocephalus discolor
nationally scarce
sites: Marlline Valley, Filsham, Country Park
sightings: July to October

Short-winged cone-head: Conocephalus dorsalis
nationally scarce
sites: Filsham
sightings: July to October

Speckled Bush Cricket: Leptophytes punctatissima
common
sites: all
sightings: July to October

Pink GrasshopperCepero's ground-hopper: Tetrix ceperoi
nationally scarce
sites: Country Park
sightings: July to November

Common ground-hopper: Tetrix undulata
common
sites: Country Park
sightings: July to November

Woodland grasshopper: Omocestus rufipes
nationally scarce
sites: Church Wood
sightings: June to October

Common green grasshopper: Omocestus viridulus
common
sites: all
sightings: June to October

Meadow grasshopper: Chorthippus parallelus
common
sites: all
sightings: June to October

Lesser marsh grasshopper: Chorthippus albomarginatus
local
sites: Filsham
sightings: June to October

Mottled grasshopper: Myrmeleotettix maculatus
common
sites: Country Park
sightings: June to October