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Great Green Bush Cricket

Tettigonia viridissima

2,380Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
33Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb0
Mar0
Apr32
May131
Jun324
Jul663
Aug699
Sep379
Oct60
Nov3
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Devon England377
2Dorset England257
3Cornwall England220
4Kent England169
5Suffolk England135
6Isle of Wight England105
7Essex England90
8Pembrokeshire Wales90
9Somerset England87
10Gloucestershire England82
11Swansea Wales68
12Cambridgeshire England38
13Norfolk England37
14Torbay England37
15Thurrock England25
2,100 England1 Scotland272 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 33 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,380
Peak month
August
Counties with records
33
Scientific name
Tettigonia viridissima
Also known as
Great Green Bush-Cricket
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,297
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Orthoptera
Family
Tettigoniidae
Genus
Tettigonia
Name with authority
Tettigonia viridissima (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
13

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q261181 · GBIF 1692898