Species map 22. Lesser marsh grasshopper Sussex Orthoptera - Online Atlas
For ease of comparison with Haes and Harding (1997), records are shown as: pre-1970, 1970-1999 and as 2000 (onwards). The eventual aim is to update all maps as completely as possible with records for 2001 onwards, to show the status of Sussex orthopteroids in the first decade of the new millennium. Records shown for boundary squares may pertain to neighbouring counties.
Lesser marsh grasshopper, Chorthippus albomarginatus (De Geer, 1773)
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Lesser marsh grasshopper is widespread and locally common especially in saltmarsh and water meadows. It also occurs on dunes at Camber and on dry grassy heathland at Copthorne. The latter record probably represents an expansion of the range of this species since the county was surveyed by Haes (1976). There is good evidence that this insect is spreading elsewhere in southern England and it is now common on urban wasteland in London. In the hot summer of 1995 I found one on a wall in Brighton, miles from the nearest colony: anecdotal evidence of the powers of dispersal of this insect.