BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

ORTHOPTERA (grasshoppers, crickets and cockroaches)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #microphotos #refs #webs
Family ACRIDIDAE (grasshoppers) 7 22 42   1 3
Family BLATTIDAE (cockroaches) 3          
Genus Ectobius (native cockroaches) 2 8 30   1  
Species Periplaneta australasiae (Fabricius, 1775) (Australian Cockroach)         1  
Family CONOCEPHALIDAE (cone-heads) 2          
Species Conocephalus discolor (Thunberg, 1815) (Long-winged Cone-head)   35 2 1 2  
Species Conocephalus dorsalis (Latreille, 1804) (Short-winged Cone-head)         1  
Family GRYLLIDAE (crickets) 1          
Species Nemobius sylvestris (Bosc, 1792) (Wood Cricket)         1  
Family GRYLLOTALPIDAE (mole-crickets) 1          
Species Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mole Cricket)   9     1  
Family MECONEMATIDAE (oak bush crickets) 2 21 11   3  
Family PHANEROPTERIDAE (speckled bush crickets) 1          
Species Leptophyes punctatissima (Bosc, 1792) (Speckled Bush Cricket)   3 9      
Family RHAPHIDOPHORIDAE (greenhouse camel crickets) 1          
Species Tachycines asynamorus Adelung (Greenhouse Camel Cricket)         1  
Family TETRIGIDAE (ground-hoppers) 3          
Genus Tetrix (groundhoppers) 3   2   1 1
Family TETTIGONIIDAE (bush crickets) 5          
Species Metrioptera brachyptera (L., 1761) (Bog Bush-cricket)   3        
Species Metrioptera roeselii (Hagenbach, 1822) (Roesel's Bush Cricket)   7     1  
Species Pholidoptera griseoaptera (DeGeer, 1773) (Dark Bush-cricket)   22 7      
Species Ruspolia nitidula (Large Cone-head)         1  
Species Tettigonia viridissima Linnaeus (Great Green Bush-cricket)   5        

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Burton, J. & Ragge, D.R. ?
Chopard, L., 1922 Orthoptères et Dermaptères
Chopard, L., 1951 Orthoptèroïdes
Marshall, J.A. & Haes, E.C.M., 1988 Grasshoppers and allied Insects of Great Britain and Ireland
Paul, J., 1989 Grasshoppers & Crickets of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire
Ragge, D.R. & Reynolds, W.J. ?
Ragge, D.R. & Reynolds, W.J. ?
Ragge, D.R., 1965 Grasshoppers, Crickets & Cockroaches of the British Isles
Ragge, D.R., 1973 The British Orthoptera: a supplement
Cercle de Mycologie de Mons (Belgique): (Page perso de JJ. Wuilbaut): http://users.skynet.be/jjw.myco.mons Web Site/Page

General Works

GrasshoppersandCricketsUK: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/GrasshoppersandCricketsUK/join E-forum
UK Grasshoppers and Crickets: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/UK-Grasshoppers-Crickets/join E-forum

ORTHOPTERA may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with ORTHOPTERA:

is endoparasitised by larva Sarcophaga jacobsoni - a flesh fly (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) Minor van Emden, F.I., 1954
is endoparasitoid host of larva Blaesoxipha - a genus of flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) Restricted van Emden, F.I., 1954
is taken to the nest of female Tachysphex nitidus s.s. - a solitary wasp (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) UK/Ireland Macdonald, M.A., in prep.
Photos is taken to the nest of female Tachysphex pompiliformis - a solitary wasp (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) UK/Ireland Macdonald, M.A., in prep.
is taken to the nest of female Tachysphex unicolor s.s. - a solitary wasp (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) UK/Ireland Macdonald, M.A., in prep.
adult (live) live adult may be infected by colony Entomophaga grylli - an entomophagous fungus (Entomophthorales: Entomophthoraceae) UK/Ireland Waterhouse, G.M. & Brady, B.L., 1982
Moss, M, Spooner, B. & Mitchell, D.W., 2007

Orthoptera may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

ANIMALIA
(animals)
INSECTA
(insects)

References

Macdonald, M.A., in prep. Forage, prey and host-parasite relationships of aculeates
Moss, M, Spooner, B. & Mitchell, D.W., 2007 Two rare and interesting entomogenous fungi from south-east England
van Emden, F.I., 1954 Diptera: Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata (I) Sect (a) Tachinidae and Calliphoridae
Waterhouse, G.M. & Brady, B.L., 1982 Key to the Species of Entomophthora sensu lato

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