The Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi included the common grasshopper warbler in the second volume of his "Ornithologiae". Aldrovandi died in 1605 but the volume was not published until 1637. In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a detailed description of the common grasshopper warbler in his "Ornithologie". He used the French name "La fauvette tachetée" and the Latin name "Curruca naevia" but although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binomial system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.