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Meadow Grasshopper

Pseudochorthippus parallelus

16,828Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
93Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb0
Mar0
Apr6
May220
Jun2,097
Jul5,752
Aug5,450
Sep2,382
Oct207
Nov9
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Essex England784
2Dorset England739
3Kent England712
4Devon England710
5Cornwall England642
6Worcestershire England588
7Gloucestershire England579
8Oxfordshire England386
9Norfolk England372
10Surrey England296
11Somerset England279
12Suffolk England242
13Rutland England222
14Northamptonshire England213
15Pembrokeshire Wales211
15,108 England395 Scotland1,323 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 93 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
16,828
Peak month
July
Counties with records
93
Scientific name
Pseudochorthippus parallelus
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
NBN Atlas records since 2000
15,325
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Orthoptera
Family
Acrididae
Genus
Pseudochorthippus
Name with authority
Pseudochorthippus parallelus (Zetterstedt, 1821)
Described
1821
Contributing datasets
25

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q14191199 · GBIF 7792296