ORTHOPTERA > ENISFERA > Trigonidiidae > Nemobiinae (Wood-crickets)

This nationally scarce species is pretty much restricted to a few locations with most records coming from Surrey, Devon, East Dorset, South Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Its stronghold though is in and around the New Forest where populations in some woodlands are very healthy. Here it tends to favour clearings or the edges of more open woodland alongside the forest rides where it can often be found in the leaf litter, particularly where there are oaks, beech, hazel and holly.

It is a small, 7-12mm long, dark brown cricket with both sexes having very short wings, the male's typically covering about half the body length while the female's are somewhat shorter. Adult females have a comparatively long ovipositor of around 5-7mm.

Although I've encountered the species a few times they've all been nymphs.