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Speckled Bush Cricket

Leptophyes punctatissima

14,459Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
71Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan4
Feb0
Mar0
Apr41
May1,371
Jun3,037
Jul3,776
Aug3,341
Sep1,933
Oct523
Nov60
Dec5

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England767
2Norfolk England736
3Devon England596
4Essex England547
5Cornwall England534
6Gloucestershire England479
7Cambridgeshire England419
8Suffolk England361
9Oxfordshire England328
10Rutland England300
11Worcestershire England299
12Surrey England282
13Dorset England207
14Thurrock England193
15Somerset England187
13,712 England6 Scotland737 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 71 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
14,459
Peak month
July
Counties with records
71
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Leptophyes punctatissima
Also known as
Speckled Bush-Cricket
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
NBN Atlas records since 2000
13,226
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Orthoptera
Family
Tettigoniidae
Genus
Leptophyes
Name with authority
Leptophyes punctatissima (Bosc, 1792)
Described
1792
Contributing datasets
22

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1757342 · GBIF 1688020