The following is a list of the species of grasshopper, cricket and allied insects recorded from Britain. The insect orders covered by this list are: * the Orthoptera - Grasshoppers and crickets * the Dermaptera - earwigs * the Blattodea - cockroaches This article lists the native species only. A number of other species have been found in the wild as vagrants or accidental introductions. Many of the Orthopteran common names were synthesised from older sources or coined where necessary by Dr. DR Ragge.