Omocestus viridulus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Common Green Grasshopper
Taxonomy:
- Orthoptera›Caelifera›Acridoidea›Acrididae›Gomphocerinae›Omocestus viridulus
Status:
Distribution
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Recordings
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Courtship song, ending with mounting song.
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Calling song. Two verses, interval between verses shortened.
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The Common Green Grasshopper recorded with a bat detector but, as our loudest grasshopper, it is readily heard by ear.
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.
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:
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.