Common Green Grasshopper
Taxonomy
Orthoptera » Caelifera » Acridoidea » Acrididae » Gomphocerinae » Omocestus viridulus
Status
UK
Distribution Map
Colours show the year of the last record -
| up to 1987 | 1988-97 | 1998 up to present |
Only Recording Scheme datasets are included. Other datasets on the Gateway may hold additional information.
Recordings
Description
Green or green and brown. There is never any red or orange on the abdomen. Females are always green dorsally though green, brown or purple elsewhere. Gently incurved side-keels on the pronotum. Palps may be pale but never chalk white.
Size
14-23 mm
Wings
Winged and flies well. In females, wings do not usually exceed the end of the body; in males they do.
Stridulation
Rapid, prolonged, sibilant clicking which starts quietly and rapidly increases in volume and is sustained for 10 to 20 seconds or longer.
Food
Herbivorous.
Habitat
Long grass often in damp situations and particularly old, unimproved grasslands which are not heavily grazed or mown.
Phenology
The first of the grasshoppers to appear in numbers, nymphs can be found from late April or May. Adults appear from July and survive into November.