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Dark Bush Cricket

Pholidoptera griseoaptera

12,688Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
49Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb3
Mar7
Apr491
May1,820
Jun1,777
Jul2,036
Aug2,771
Sep2,544
Oct831
Nov103
Dec2

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England816
2Devon England745
3Norfolk England682
4Gloucestershire England604
5Essex England552
6Suffolk England433
7Cornwall England393
8Dorset England375
9Cambridgeshire England270
10Northamptonshire England264
11Somerset England262
12Oxfordshire England228
13Thurrock England220
14Worcestershire England183
15Bath and North East Somerset England167
11,979 England1 Scotland704 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 49 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
12,688
Peak month
August
Counties with records
49
Scientific name
Pholidoptera griseoaptera
Also known as
Dark Bush-Cricket
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
NBN Atlas records since 2000
11,807
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Orthoptera
Family
Tettigoniidae
Genus
Pholidoptera
Name with authority
Pholidoptera griseoaptera (De Geer, 1773)
Described
1773
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1500713 · GBIF 1695297