Common Groundhopper - Tetrix undulata
Size 8 to 11 mm. The Common Groundhopper is a small relative of the grasshoppers, but is smaller in size and more heavily armoured. It is shorter than the similar Slender Groundhopper.
Can be found in damp or dry locations with bare ground and short vegetation such as woodland tracks, disused railway lines, bare peat and sand dunes.
All year round
Widespread and quite common throughout Britain, it is probably often overlooked.
Infrequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Not common, but probably under-recorded.
David Nicholls
Nature Alive
02 September 2010
David Gould
The Spearwort Fields
26 July 2018
David Gould
The Spearwort Fields
16 August 2015
David Nicholls
Ratby Village Pond
09 July 2011
female
David Nicholls
Cossington
11 October 2011
sue
New Lount Nature Reserve, old sidings area
15 August 2023
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
21 July 2020
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Species profile
- Common names
- Common Ground-hopper
- Species group:
- Grasshoppers & Crickets
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Orthoptera
- Family:
- Tetrigidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 17
- First record:
- 03/06/1992 (Jon Daws)
- Last record:
- 04/09/2023 (Lewis, Steven)
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David Nicholls
Ratby Village Pond
09 July 2011
male - mottled variant
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
21 July 2020
