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Species Account for Myrmeleotettix maculatus

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Myrmeleotettix maculatus  (Thunberg, 1815)
Mottled Grasshopper
Orthoptera group: Acrididae

Myrmeleotettix maculatus  (Mottled Grasshopper) Copyright: Graham Ekins

 
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Taxonomic group: grasshoppers, crickets and allies (Orthoptera group) - County data

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Essex RDB: Listed
Threat: Essex Vulnerable

Records: 129
First Record: 1976
Latest Record: 2023

1992-on hectads: 10
Pre-1992 hectads: 3
Total hectads: 10

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Essex Red Data List comment
A wide distribution over Great Britain and Ireland occurring to the far north of Scotland and the Western Isles. However in Essex it is a rare insect with key habitat sites at a premium. Just eight 1km records since 1980 spread in six 10km squares. Two further very old 10km records. This species appears to require lichen heathland, thin grassland or old and grassed over quarry sites, etc.

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Although the Mottled Grasshopper is widespread in much of Britain, in Essex it is very rare. The species requires a maximum amount of sun in dry localities and is found in short turf with much bare ground over sand, chalk or limestone, typically on the steep banks. In Essex it occurs in very few localities, the main ones being at Colne Point (where it is numerous) and Middlewick Ranges, Colchester. It appears to have been lost from Epping Forest where it had been recorded from an area of heathland. A location identified in 1995 at Mill Wood Pit in Thurrock has been almost completely lost to large-scale housing development, with the species is still present on a section of railway embankment (A. Knowles, pers. comm.). One population has recently been identified in a small area of Tiptree Heath. References

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Habitats

Broad Habitat Data (based on 55 records with habitat information)

no subhabitat data available

Structural Habitat Data (based on 60 records with structural habitat information)

Habitat Detail and Method (based on 129 records with habitat detail and method information)

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