| Meconema meridionale | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Family: | Tettigoniidae |
| Genus: | Meconema |
| Species: | M. meridionale |
| Binomial name | |
| Meconema meridionale (Costa, 1860) |
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Meconema meridionale is an insect in the family Tettigoniidae, commonly known as the southern oak bush cricket.[1] It is carnivorous, arboreal and nocturnal. It has a more southerly distribution than its relative, Meconema thalassinum, being found in southern France, south-western Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria and the former Yugoslavia.[2] It is a predator of the Horse-chestnut leaf miner, Cameraria ohridella.[3]