List of Orthoptera of Korea
# List of Orthoptera of Korea

This is a list of Orthoptera found in the wild of the Korean Peninsula and surrounding islands.

## Grasshoppers

| Common name (Korean name) | Species (Authority) | Preferred habitat | Range | Status |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Pyrgomorhpidae - 2 species |||||
| (섬서구메뚜기/장단메뚜기/방아가비) | Atractomorpha lata (Motschulsky, 1866) | | Throughout the Korean peninsula. | I: |
| (분홍날개섬서구메뚜기) | Atractomorpha sinensis sinensis (Mistshenko, 1951) | | South Korea. Also found in China. | I: |
| Acrididae - |||||
| (검은줄벼메뚜기) | Oxya agavisa (Tsai, 1931) | | | I: |
| (벼메뚜기/우리벼메뚜기) | Oxya chinensis sinuosa (Mistshenko, 1951) | | | I: |
| (애기벼메뚜기) | Oxya hyla instricata (Stal, 1861) | | | I: |
| (밑들이메뚜기/밑드리메뚜기/좀밑드리메뚜기/거품메뚜기) | Anapodisma miramae (Dovnar-Zapolsky 1933) | Mountains | | I: |
| (팔공산밑들이메뚜기) | Anapodisma beybienkoi (Rentz and Miller, 1971) | | Throughout mainland, Jejudo, Ulleung-do | I: |
| (원산밑들이메뚜기/남방메뚜기) | Ognevia sergii (Ikonnikov, 1911) | | Mainland, Ulleung-do | I: |
| (긴날개밑들이메뚜기/긴날개거품메뚜기) | Ognevia longipennis (Shiraki 1910) | | Mainland South Korea | I: |
| (참밑들이메뚜기) | Podisma aberrans (Ikonnikov 1911) | | | I: |
| (검정무릎삽사리) | Podismopsis genicularibus (Shiraki, 1910) | Lives in grass fields in mountain areas. | North and central parts of the Korean peninsula | I: |
| (고산삽사리) | Podisma ussuriensis ussuriensis (Ikonnikov, 1911) | Lives in grass fields in mountains at least 1700 meters in altitude. | Jejudo. Also in Mongolia, Primorye. | I: |
| (제주밑들이메뚜기/반디밑들이메뚜기) | Parapodisma setouchiensis (Inoue 1979) | | Jeju-do | I: |
| (고산밑들이메뚜기) | Miramella solitaria (Ikonnikov 1911) | | | I: |
| (한라북방밑들이메뚜기/우리북방밑들이메뚜기) | Prumna halrasana (Lee and Lee 1984) | | | I: |
| (고산북방밑들이메뚜기) | Prumna plana (Mistshenko 1974) | | | I: |
| (참북방밑들이메뚜기) | Prumna mandshurica (Ramme 1939) | | | I: |
| (우수리북방밑들이메뚜기/우수리밑드리메뚜기) | Prumna primnoides (Ikonnikov 1911) | | | I: |
| (참민날개밑들이메뚜기/참밑드리메뚜기) | Zubovskya morii (Bey-Bienko 1931) | | | I: |
| (민날개밑들이메뚜기/백두산민날개밑드리메뚜기/반날개메뚜기) | Zubovskya koeppeni parvula (Ikonnikov 1911) | | North Korea | I: |
| (한국민날개밑들이메뚜기) | Zubovskya koreana (Mistshenko 1952) | | | I: |
| (꽃메뚜기) | Chondracris rosea (de Geer 1773) | | only listed species. Also found in China. | I: |
| (각시메뚜기/땅메뚜기/등줄메뚜기/등줄땅메뚜기/알록메뚜기/일본메뚜기/흙메뚜기) | Nomadacris japonica (Bolivar 1898) | | Southern part of Korean peninsula in the seacoast and Jeju-do, Geojedo, Namhae County, Wando County. | I: |
| (땅딸보메뚜기/도이땅딸보메뚜기/한국땅딸보메뚜기 | Calliptamus abbreviatus (Ikonnikov 1913) | | | I: |
| (등검은메뚜기/검은등메뚜기/시라끼메뚜기) | Shirakiacris shirakii (Bolivar 1914) | | Throughout Korean peninsula, Jeju-do, Ulleung-do. Also in other eastern Asia. | I: |
| (방아깨비/방아개비/방아다리메뚜기 | Acrida cinerea (Thunberg 1815) | Fields. | Throughout the Korean peninsula, Jeju-do, Ulleung-do. Also in China, Japan and Taiwan. | I: |
| (검정수염메뚜기/대메뚜기) | Ceracris nigricornis laeta (Bolivar 1914) | Common in grass fields in hills. | Southern part of Korean peninsula | I: |
| (딱다기/딱따기/딱때기/딱대기붙이/대만딱다깨비사촌) | Gonista bicolor (de Haan 1842) | | | I: |
| Leek grasshopper (벼메뚜기붙이/벼메뚜기부치/벼메뚜기번티기) | Mecostethus alliaceus (Germar 1871) | | | I: |
| (끝검은메뚜기) | Stethophyma magister (Rehn 1902) | | | I: |
| (참어리삽사리/울음메뚜기번티기) | Arcyptera coreana (Shiraki 1930) | | | I: |
| (어리삽사리) | Arcyptera fusca albogeniculata (Ikonnikov 1911) | | North Korea | I: |
| (잔날개어리삽사리/작은날개울음메뚜기번티기) | Paracyptera microptera meridionalis (Ikonnikov 1911) | | North Korea | I: |
| (북채수염수중다리메뚜기/북채수염메뚜기) | Gomphocerus kudia (Caudell 1927) | | North Korea | I: |
| (북채수염메뚜기/붉은메뚜기붉은메뚜기/빨간메뚜기) | Gomphocerippus rufus (Linnaeus 1758) | | North Korea | I: |
| | Glyptobothrus dubius (Zubowsky 1898) | | North Korea | I: |
| (극동애메뚜기/애메뚜기/애기메뚜기/변색애기메뚜기) | Glyptobothrus maritimus (Mishchenko 1951) | | mountain region of the Korean peninsula. | I: |
| (동방애메뚜기/동방애기메뚜기) | Chorthippus intermedius (Bey-Bienko 1926) | | North Korea | I: |
| (시베리아애메뚜기/씨비리애기메뚜기) | Chorthippus hammarstroemi (Miram 1907) | | | I: |
| Water-meadow grasshopper (긴수염애메뚜기/산애기메뚜기) | Chorthippus montanus (Charpentier 1825) | | | I: |
| (수염치레애메뚜기/긴수염애기메뚜기/쇠긴수염애기메뚜기/발해애메뚜기/긴날개애기메뚜기) | Schmidtiacris schmidti (Ikonnikov 1913) | | | I: |
| (꼭지메뚜기) | Euchorthippus unicolor (Ikonnikov 1913) | | | I: |
| (청날개애메뚜기/실뿔메뚜기/검푸른애기메뚜기) | MMegaulacobothrus aethalinus (Zubowsky 1899) | | | I: |
| (제주청날개애메뚜기/폭날개애메뚜기 | MMegaulacobothrus jejuensis Kim, 2008 | | Jejudo(indigenous species) | I: |
| Orange-tipped grasshopper (대륙메뚜기/붉은배풀메뚜기) | Omocestus haemorrhoidalis (Charpentier 1825) | | | I: |
| Common green grasshopper (구대륙메뚜기/푸른풀메뚜기) | Omocestus viridulus (Linnaeus 1758) | | North Korea | I: |
| Large gold grasshopper (금빛삽사리) | Chrysochraon dispar major (Uvarov 1925) | | This species was discovered in North Korea | I: |
| (삽사리/섬나라메뚜기) | Mongolotettix japonicus (Bolivar 1898) | | Throughout the Korean peninsula. | I: |
| (알타이삽사리) | Podismopsis altaica (Zubowsky 1899) | | North Korea | I: |
| (백두산삽사리/산삽사리/우수리산삽사리) | Podismopsis ussuriensis (Ikonnikov 1911) | | This species was first discovered in North Korea | I: |
| (검정무릎삽사리/검정삽사리/검정물팍삽사리/반날개삽사리) | Podismopsis genicularibus (Shiraki 1910) | | | I: |
| (청분홍메뚜기/알락메뚜기) | Aiolopus thalassinus tamulus (Fabricius 1798) | | | I: |
| (해변메뚜기) | Epacromius japonicus (Shiraki 1910) | | | I: |
| (발톱메뚜기/얼룩메뚜기) | Epacromius pulverulentus (Fischer von Waldheim 1846) | | | I: |
| (홍날개메뚜기/붉은날개메뚜기/청다리메뚜기) | Celes skalozubovi akitanus (Shiraki 1910) | | | I: |
| (콩중이) | Gastrimargus marmoratus (Thunberg 1815) | | | I: |
| (풀무치/메뚜기/이주메뚜기) | Locusta migratoria (Linnaeus 1758) | | | I: |
| (팥중이/팥뛰기/팟중이/애콩중이) | Oedaleus infernalis (Saussure 1884) | | | I: |
| (두꺼비메뚜기/사마귀메뚜기) | Trilophidia annulata (Thunberg 1815) | | | I: |
| (강변메뚜기/벌메뚜기) | Sphingonotus mongolicus (Saussure 1888) | | | I: |
| (빨간종아리메뚜기) | Bryodema gebleri (Fischer von Waldheim 1836) | | misrecorded species | I: |
| Speckled grasshopper (참홍날개메뚜기/붉은큰날개메뚜기) | Bryodemella tuberculatum dilutum (Stroll 1813) | | | I: |

## Phasmatodea

| Common name (Korean name) | Species (Authority) | Range | Status |
| - | - | - | - |
| Lonchodidae - 1 species |||||
| (긴수염대벌레) | Phraortes illepidus (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907) | | I: |
| Phasmatidae - 3 species |||||
| (대벌레) | Baculum irregulariterdentatum (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1907) | | |: |
| (대벌레) | Baculum elongatus (Thunberg) | | |: |
| (우리대벌레) | Baculum koreanum (Kwon Ha and Lee, 1992) | indigenous species | |: |
| Necrosciidae - 2 species |||||
| (분홍날개대벌레) | Micadina phluctainoides (Rehn 1904) | | |: |
| (날개대벌레) | Micadina yasumatsui (Shiraki 1935) | | |: |

## Notoptera

| Common name (Korean name) | Species (Authority) | Range | Status |
| - | - | - | - |
| Grylloblattidae - 5 species or more |||||
| (비룡갈로와벌레/비룡귀뚜라미붙이) | Namkungia biryongensis (Namkung 1974) | indigenous species | |: |
| (고수갈로와벌레/고수귀뚜라미붙이) | Galloisiana kosuensis Namkung 1974 | indigenous species | |: |
| (동대갈로와벌레/동대귀뚜라미붙이) | Galloisiana magna (Namkung 1986) | indigenous species | |: |
| (백두갈로와벌레/백두귀뚜라미붙이) | Galloisiana sinensis (Wang 1987) | indigenous species | |: |
| (묘향갈로와벌레/묘향귀뚜라미붙이) | Galloisiana sofiae (Szeptycki 1987) | indigenous species | |: |

Most of grylloblattids are unrecorded or unidentified species.

## Ensifera

| Common name (Korean name) | Species (Authority) | Preferred habitat | Range | Status |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Tettigoniidae - species |||||
| (여치/북방여치) | Gampsocleis sedakovii obscura (Walker, 1869) | grasslands | | I: |
| (긴날개여치/긴날개우쑤리여치) | Gampsocleis ussuriensis Adelung, 1910 | grasslands | | I: |
| (중베짱이/만주중베짱이/먹중베짱이) | Tettigonia ussuriana (Walker, 1869) | grasslands | | I: |
| (긴날개중베짱이/wikt:ko:중베짱이) | Tettigonia dolichoptera Mori, 1933 | grasslands | endemic | I: |
| (극동긴긴날개중베짱이) | Tettigonia ucarovi Ebner, 1946 | grasslands | | I: |
| (섬중베짱이/wikt:ko:동방중베짱이) | Tettigonia jungi Storozhenko, Kim and Jeon, 2015 | grasslands | Jejudo, Yeoseodo, endemic | I: |
| (잔날개여치/작은날개애기여치) | Chizuella bonneti (Bolívar, 1890) | | | I: |
| (갈색여치/갈색긴허리여치) | Paratlanticus ussuriensis (Uvarov, 1926) | | | I: |
| (팔공여치) | Paratlanticus palgongensis Rentz and Miller, 1971 | | | I: |
| (우리여치) | Anatlanticus koreanus Bey-Bienko, 1951 | | endemic | I: |
| (애여치) | Eobiana engelhardti engelhardti (Uvarov, 1926) | | | I: |
| (좀날개여치/검정긴허리여치) | Atlanticus brunneri (Pylnov, 1914) | | | I: |
| (민충이) | Deracantha transversa Uvarov | | | I: |
| Sickle-bearing bush cricket (실베짱이/이슬여치) | Phaneroptera falcata Poda, 1761 | | | I: |
| Myrmecophilidae - 1 species |||||
| Gryllacrididae - 4 species |||||
| (민어리여치) | Nippancistroger koreanus Storozhenko 2003 | | Central and southern part of the Korean peninsula and Jeju-do. endemic | I: |
| (어리여치/귀뚜라미여치) | Eugryllacris japonica (Matsumura and Shiraki 1908) | | Southern part of the Korean peninsula and Jeju-do. Also in Japan. | I: |
| (범어리여치) | Metriogryllacris tigris Kim, 2014 | | Southern part of the Korean islands (endemic) | I: |
| Rhaphidophoridae - 6 species |||||
| (산꼽등이) | Anoplophilus koreanus (Storozhenko & Paik, 2010) | endemic | | |: |
| (장수꼽등이) | Diestrammena unicolor (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888) | Mountains. Around the forest floor and rotting wood. | Mainland | |: |
| Greenhouse camel cricket (알락꼽등이/알락말귀뚜라미) | Diestrammena asynamora (Adelung 1902) | cracks in rocks or near the houses | Mainland | |: |
| (꼽등이/한국굴꼽등이) | Diestrammena coreana (Yamasaki 1969) | Caves. They hide in dark places outside or inside houses during the daytime and come out during night. They can live near houses. | Mainland and Jejudo | |: |
| (검정꼽등이/우수리말귀뚜라미) | Paratachycines ussuriensis (Storozhenko 1990) | Mountains and also in caves. | Mainland and Jejudo | |: |
| (굴꼽등이) | Paratachycines boldyrevi (Uvarov 1926) | Caves in mountains | Mainland | |: |
| Gryllidae - species |||||
| (희시무르귀뚜라미/부엌귀뚜라미) | Gryllodes supplicans (Walker 1859) | | Mainland and near the houses | I: |
| (먹귀뚜라미) | Nigrogryllus sibiricus (Chopard 1925)) | Mountain slopes in dead leaves. | Mainland | I: |
| (쌍별귀뚜라미) | Gryllus bimaculatus (de Geer 1773) | invaded species for pets' feed | | I: |
| (알락귀뚜라미/돌거북귀뚜라미) | Loxoblemmus campestris (Matsuura 1988) | Common in and near grassy areas. | Mainland and Jejudo | I: |
| (큰알락귀뚜라미) | Loxoblemmus magnatus (Matsuura 1985) | | | I: |
| (모대가리귀뚜라미/뿔귀뚜라미) | Loxoblemmus doenitzi (Stein 1881) | Lives in grassy areas, farms and parks. | Mainland and Jejudo | I: |
| (야산알락귀뚜라미/남쪽알락귀뚜라미 | Loxoblemmus equestris (Saussure 1877) | | Mainland | I: |
| (꽃알락귀뚜라미) | Loxoblemmus spectabilis (Gorochov and Kostia 1993) | | This species was first discovered in North Korea | I: |
| (곰귀뚜라미) | Mitius minor (Shiraki 1911) | | | I: |
| (루루곰귀뚜라미) | Comidogryllus nipponensis (Shiraki 1911) | Slopes in mountain areas in dead leaves and under rocks. | | I: |
| (샴귀뚜라미) | Modicogryllus siamensis (Chopard 1961) | Shores, islands, in short grass and under rocks. | Southern part of mainland South Korea and Jejudo. | I: |
| (왕귀뚜라미) | Teleogryllus emma (Ohmachi and Matsuura 1951) | Common around fields, grass fields, parks and farmland. | Mainland and Jejudo. | I: |
| (탈귀뚜라미/귀뚜라미/애귀뚜라미) | Velarifictorus aspersus (Walker 1869) | Southern parts of the Korean peninsula | Mainland | I: |
| (극동귀뚜라미) | Velarifictorus micado (Saussure 1877) | Usually found in grass fields and near houses. Males dig a hole under a rock to call. | Mainland and Jejudo. | I: |
| (봄여름귀뚜라미) | Velarifictorus ornatus (Shiraki 1911) | | Mainland | I: |
| (뚱보귀뚜라미) | Duolandrevus ivani (Gorochov 1988) | Under bark or cracks in rock cliffs. | Jejudo | I: |
| (wikt:ko:) | Landreva clara? (Walker 1869) | ? | probably misrecorded species | I: |
| (곰방울벌레) | Sclerogryllus punctatus (Brunner von Wattenwyl 1893) | They live on the ground of tall, thick grass with dead leaves. | Central, south and Jejudo | I: |
| (솔귀뚜라미/큰홀쭉귀뚜라미) | Xenogryllus marmoratus marmoratus (De Haan, 1842) | | Mainland and Jejudo | I: |
| (청솔귀뚜라미/푸른씩씨리) | Truljalia hibinonis (Matsumura 1919) | | Southern part of the Korean peninsula and Jeju-do. Also in Japan. I: | |

## Cockroaches and Termites

| Common name (Korean name) | Species (Authority) | Preferred habitat | Range | Status |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Cryptocercidae - 2 species |||||
| (가시바퀴) | Cryptocercus relictus Bey-Bienko 1935 | Rotting wood | | I: |
| (갑옷바퀴/귀신바퀴) | Cryptocercus kyebangensis (Grandcolas 2001) | Rotten trunks and branches in high mountains. | Mainland(indigenous species) | I: |
| Blattidae - 4 species |||||
| American Cockroach (이질바퀴/미국바퀴/고리무늬바퀴) | Periplaneta americana (Linnaeus, 1758) | Indoors. Common domestic pest. | | |: |
| Smokybrown Cockroach (먹바퀴) | Periplaneta fuliginosa (Serville, 1838) | Outdoors, in rotting wood. Common pest in Jeju-do. | | |: |
| Japanese Cockroach (집바퀴/일본바퀴) | Periplaneta japonica (Karny, 1908) | Rotting wood or indoors. Common domestic pest. | Mainland | |: |
| Australian Cockroach (잔이질바퀴/작은고리무늬바퀴) | Periplaneta australasiae (Fabricius, 1775) | unrecoeded species (only listed) | | |: |
| Ectobiidae - |||||
| Kyoto Roach (경도바퀴) | Asiablatta kyotensis (Asahina 1976) | Can be found around rotting wood and tree sap of the southern parts | Mainland | |: |
| German Cockroach (바퀴/참바퀴/독일바퀴) | Blattella germanica (Linnaeus 1767) | Common domestic pest. | | |: |
| (산바퀴) | Blattella nipponica (Asahina 1963) | Forest floor. | | |: |
| (유리날개바퀴) | Margattea kumamotonis (Shiraki 1931) | Moist grass | Jeju-do and other islands of the southern parts. Also found in Japan. | |: |
| (줄바퀴) | Symploce striata (Shiraki 1906) | During the night they are found on trees and in leaf litter. rare species | Also in Japan and China. | |: |
| Rhinotermitidae - 2 species |||||
| (흰개미) | Reticulitermes speratus kyushuensis (Morimoto 1968) | Wet rotting wood. Wooden building pest. | | |: |
| (칸몬흰개미) | Reticulitermes kanmonensis (Morimoto 1968) | rotting wood | | |: |
| (집흰개미) | Coptotermes formosanus (Shiraki 1905) | Old wood houses in the southern part | | |: |

## Mantodea

| Common name (Korean name) | Species (Authority) | Preferred habitat | Range | Status |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Mantidae - 7 species |||||
| Chinese Mantis (왕사마귀/큰사마귀) | Tenodera sinensis (Saussure, 1871) | Grass | Throughout mainland | I: |
| Narrow-winged Mantis (사마귀 | Tenodera angustipennis (Saussure, 1869) | Grass | Through mainland South Korea, Jejudo, Ulleung-do. See here for more comprehensive range. | I: |
| Asian Jumping Mantis (좀사마귀/작은사마귀) | Statilia maculata (Thunberg, 1784) | Can be found in both rural and urban areas in grass and bushes. | Throughout mainland | I: |
| (민무늬좀사마귀) | Statilia nemoralis (Saussure, 1870) | | Gyeonggi Province | I: |
| (항라사마귀/유리날개사마귀)|?Mantis religiosa beybienkoi (Bazyluk, 1960)? | | North Korea (?). Found in Western Siberia and Far East Russia, including Khasansky District bordering North Korea. | I: |
| European Mantis (항라사마귀/유리날개사마귀/엷은날개사마귀) | Mantis religiosa sinica (Bazyluk, 1960) | Grass | Central and southern part of the Korean peninsula. | |: |
| Asian Mantis (넓적배사마귀/넙적배사마귀) | Hierodula patellifera (Audinet-Serville, 1839) | Trees | Central and south | |: |
| (붉은긴가슴넓적배사마귀) | Hierodula chinensis (Werner, 1929) | Trees | Central and south | |: |
| (좁쌀사마귀) | Amantis nawai (Shiraki:1908) | | South and Jejudo | |: |
| Hymenopodidae - 1 species |||||
| Japanese Boxer Mantis (애기사마귀) | Acromantis japonica (Westwood, 1889) | Usually lives around shady areas on trees, rocks and leaf litter in mountains in the southern parts. | Also found in China, Japan and Taiwan. | |: |
