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Mottled Grasshopper

Myrmeleotettix maculatus

2,707Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
73Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar1
Apr6
May73
Jun446
Jul926
Aug779
Sep300
Oct18
Nov2
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Dorset England129
2Worcestershire England116
3Aberdeenshire Scotland114
4Norfolk England100
5Highland Scotland95
6Suffolk England79
7Devon England74
8Surrey England70
9Cumbria England70
10Essex England68
11Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland63
12Cambridgeshire England50
13Sefton England49
14Cornwall England48
15North Yorkshire England48
2,032 England401 Scotland253 Wales15 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 73 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,707
Peak month
July
Counties with records
73
Scientific name
Myrmeleotettix maculatus
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,510
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Orthoptera
Family
Acrididae
Genus
Myrmeleotettix
Name with authority
Myrmeleotettix maculatus (Thunberg, 1815)
Described
1815
Contributing datasets
28

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1498018 · GBIF 1701365