List of Orthopteroid genera containing species recorded in Europe

This list contains extant European genera of the "Orthopteroid" orders (or Polyneoptera) that are often studied and written-about together. With the limited fauna in the British Isles, it is relatively easy to include organisms to species level: as in the list of Orthoptera and allied insects of Great Britain. However, the whole continent - defined here biogeographically as the part of the Palaearctic realm West of the Ural Mountains, including all islands - encompasses a much greater diversity (well over 1000 species) that includes a number of recently erected and little-known genera.

The list may also be of interest outside Europe, since for various historical reasons, the continent is home to the type species of many higher taxa: to family level and above (e.g. Tettigonia viridissima, the great-green bush cricket, is type for its genus, tribe, family and superfamily: the Tettigonoidea).

Searches have been carried out the authoritative Species Files for the following sections of this list:

• Orthoptera sensu stricto including crickets, bush crickets and grasshoppers: and their allies.^[1]
• Stick insects^[2]
• Praying mantids,^[3] native cockroaches and termites^[4]
• Earwigs^[5]

The focus has been on native species, but some genera marked with a *, may contain species that are probably introduced, cosmopolitan or other vagrant organisms.

1. Gryllotalpa Latreille, 1802
2. Myrmecophilus Berthold, 1827

1. Dolichopoda Bolivar, 1880
2. Tachycines Adelung, 1902* (Asian origin)
3. Troglophilus Krauss, 1879

• Phasmatidae: Phasmatinae

1. Acanthoxyla Uvarov 1955 (* New Zealand)

• Bacillidae: Bacillinae: tribe Bacillini

1. Bacillus Berthold, 1827 (2 European spp.)
2. Clonopsis Stål, 1875

• tribe Gratidiini

1. Leptynia Pantel, 1890
2. Pijnackeria Scali, 2009

• Amorphoscelididae
  • Perlamantis Guérin-Méneville, 1843
• Amelidae
  • Ameles Burmeister, 1838
  • Apteromantis Werner, 1931 Apteromantis aptera
• Empusidae
  • Blepharopsis mendica (Fabricius, 1775) - monotypic: Cyprus, Turkey
  • Empusa Illiger, 1798
• Mantidae
  • Mantis religiosa (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Iris oratoria (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Thespidae
  • Oligonicella Giglio-Tos, 1915

Corydiidae

• Corydiinae
  • Hemelytroblatta Chopard, 1929
  • Polyphaga Brullé, 1835

Ectobiidae

• Blattellinae
  • Loboptera Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865
• Ectobiinae
  • Capraiellus Harz, 1976
  • Dziriblatta Chopard, 1936
  • Ectobius Stephens, 1835
  • Luridiblatta Fernandes, 1965: Luridiblatta trivittata (Serville, 1838)
  • Phyllodromica Fieber, 1853
  • Planuncus Bohn, 2013
• Pseudophyllodromiinae
  • Chorisoblatta: mostly African genus includes Chorisoblatta insularis (Saussure, 1869) - Mauritius

Isoptera (termites)

• Rhinotermitidae
  • Reticulitermes Holmgren, 1913

Anisolabidinae

• Anisolabis Fieber, 1853 (mostly Asian): Anisolabis maritima* is cosmopolitan
• Euborellia Burr, 1910: Euborellia moesta is a southern European species; Euborellia annulipes* is cosmopolitan

Allodahliinae

• Eulithinus Hincks, 1935

Anechurinae

• Anechura Scudder, 1876
• Chelidura Latreille, 1825
• Chelidurella Verhoeff, 1902
• Mesochelidura Verhoeff, 1902
• Pseudochelidura Verhoeff, 1902

Forficulinae

• Apterygida Westwood, 1840
• Forficula Linnaeus, 1758 e.g. Forficula auricularia
• Guanchia Burr, 1911

• Labidura Leach, 1815 e.g. Labidura riparia* is cosmopolitan
• Nala Zacher, 1910

Isolaboidinae

• Isolaboides Hincks, 1958

Labiinae

• Isolabella Verhoeff, 1902
• Labia Leach, 1815 e.g. Labia minor
• Paralabella Steinmann, 1989 (in some sources treated as Paralabellula Kevan, 1991)

Spongiphorinae

• Marava Burr, 1911 (synonym Prolabia): Marava arachidis (Yersin, 1860) * (mostly S. American)