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Oak Bush Cricket

Meconema thalassinum

5,193Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
68Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb3
Mar1
Apr2
May133
Jun549
Jul1,316
Aug1,926
Sep494
Oct154
Nov56
Dec3

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England644
2Gloucestershire England229
3Norfolk England190
4Essex England185
5Suffolk England168
6Telford and Wrekin England145
7Devon England125
8Rutland England124
9Kent England121
10Cambridgeshire England119
11Oxfordshire England109
12Cornwall England79
13Nottinghamshire England74
14Dorset England65
15Northamptonshire England62
4,981 England211 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 68 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
5,193
Peak month
August
Counties with records
68
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Meconema thalassinum
Also known as
Oak Bush-Cricket
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
NBN Atlas records since 2000
4,831
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Orthoptera
Family
Tettigoniidae
Genus
Meconema
Name with authority
Meconema thalassinum (De Geer, 1773)
Described
1773
Contributing datasets
19

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1500649 · GBIF 1690432