Species map 24. Mottled 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.
Mottled grasshopper, Myrmeleotettix maculatus (Thunberg, 1815)
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Widespread and locally common but some colonies are very small and vulnerable to change in habitat. Mottled grasshoppers favour established open habitats with patches of bare ground, moss and lichen. Found locally on the South Downs (such as Wolstonbury and near Lullington and an old quarry near Chanctonbury), established coastal dunes (Camber and at West Beach, Littlehampton) and heathland (Ashdown Forest and the West Sussex greensand commons). It occurs on established shingle at Rye.