Nemobius sylvestris (Bosc, 1792)

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Status: British Isles native species.

Description: A small, dark brown cricket with a paler pronotum.

Size: 7-12 mm

Wings: Flightless with reduced forewings.

Stridulation: Low purring song that is difficult to hear from a solitary male but can be heard from a chorus of males.

Food: Dead leaves and fungi.

Habitat: Deep leaf litter in warm clearings and sunny edges of woods or areas of scrub but can also occur in stone walls, earth banks, and clay sea cliffs near wood or scrub.

Phenology: Two year life cycle, adults present from June to the end of October.

Distribution: The records held by the National Biodiversity Network are shown in the map below.

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Only the following datasets are included:

• Biological Records Centre - Grasshopper and Cricket (Orthoptera) and related species records from Britain and Ireland to 2007

Other datasets on the gateway may hold additional information.