Meconema meridionale

Meconema meridionale
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Genus: Meconema
Species: M. meridionale
Binomial name
Meconema meridionale
(Costa, 1860)

Meconema meridionale is an insect in the family Tettigoniidae, commonly known as the southern oak bush cricket.[1]

It commonly measures 14 to 17 mm in length (not including antennae) and is carnivorous, arboreal and nocturnal.[2] It has a more southerly distribution than its relative, Meconema thalassinum, being found in southern France, south-western Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, the former Yugoslavia[3] and, since 2001, the UK.[4] It is a predator of the Horse-chestnut leaf miner, Cameraria ohridella.[5]

References

  1. "Meconema meridionale (Costa, 1860) Southern Oak Bush Cricket". Orthoptera and Allied Insects. Biological Records Centre. Retrieved July 21, 2010.
  2. http://www.orthoptera.org.uk/account.aspx?ID=8
  3. Karim Vahed (1996). "Prolonged copulation in oak bushcrickets (Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae: Meconema thalassinum and M. meridionale)". Journal of Orthoptera Research. 5: 199–204. JSTOR 3503594.
  4. "Saving Species (Srs 3) - 09 Oct 12 - Ep 6". BBC.
  5. G. Grabenweger; P. Kehrli; B. Schlick-Steiner; F. Steiner; M. Stolz; S. Bacher. "Predator complex of the horse chestnut leafminer Cameraria ohridella: identification and impact assessment" (PDF). Journal of Applied Entomology. 129 (7): 353–362. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0418.2005.00973.x. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-09-02.


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