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Common Field Grasshopper

Chorthippus brunneus

20,577Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
118Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb2
Mar0
Apr10
May253
Jun1,731
Jul5,668
Aug7,401
Sep3,940
Oct650
Nov61
Dec11

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England816
2Worcestershire England810
3Kent England786
4Devon England657
5Cornwall England591
6Essex England560
7Suffolk England483
8Dorset England452
9Cambridgeshire England444
10North Yorkshire England363
11Cumbria England313
12Oxfordshire England298
13Surrey England285
14East Riding of Yorkshire England266
15Gloucestershire England239
17,945 England838 Scotland1,698 Wales30 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 118 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
20,577
Peak month
August
Counties with records
118
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Chorthippus brunneus
Also known as
Field Grasshopper
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
NBN Atlas records since 2000
17,815
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Orthoptera
Family
Acrididae
Genus
Chorthippus
Name with authority
Chorthippus brunneus (Thunberg, 1815)
Described
1815
Contributing datasets
40

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q901035 · GBIF 1708459