- Meconema meridionale
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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 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]
References
- ^ "Meconema meridionale (Costa, 1860) Southern Oak Bush Cricket". Orthoptera and Allied Insects. Biological Records Centre. http://www.orthoptera.org.uk/account.aspx?ID=9. Retrieved July 21, 2010.
- ^ Karim Vahed (1996). "Prolonged copulation in oak bushcrickets (Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae: Meconema thalassinum and M. meridionale)". Journal of Orthoptera Research 5: 199–204. JSTOR 3503594.
- ^ 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. https://www.unifr.ch/biol/ecology/bersier/members/Publications%20Patrik%20Kehrli/Grabenweger%20et%20al.%202005.pdf.
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