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Grey Bush Cricket

Platycleis albopunctata

661Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
16Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr5
May29
Jun89
Jul144
Aug190
Sep146
Oct25
Nov2
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Devon England106
2Cornwall England81
3Swansea Wales78
4Kent England76
5Dorset England71
6Isle of Wight England24
7Essex England19
8Portsmouth England16
9Suffolk England11
10Pembrokeshire Wales11
11Gwynedd Wales9
12Torbay England5
13Isles of Scilly England4
14Carmarthenshire Wales3
15Somerset England1
543 England118 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 16 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
661
Peak month
August
Counties with records
16
Scientific name
Platycleis albopunctata
Also known as
Grey Bush-Cricket
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
NBN Atlas records since 2000
655
Most recorded in
Devon, Cornwall, Swansea, Kent, Dorset
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Rare and scarce species
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Orthoptera
Family
Tettigoniidae
Genus
Platycleis
Name with authority
Platycleis albopunctata (Goeze, 1778)
Described
1778
Contributing datasets
11

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1316351 · GBIF 1685298