Meconema meridionale
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Family: | Tettigoniidae |
| Genus: | Meconema |
| Species: | M. meridionale |
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| 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 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]
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- ↑ "Meconema meridionale (Costa, 1860) Southern Oak Bush Cricket". Orthoptera and Allied Insects. Biological Records Centre. Retrieved July 21, 2010.
- ↑ http://www.orthoptera.org.uk/account.aspx?ID=8
- ↑ Karim Vahed (1996). "Prolonged copulation in oak bushcrickets (Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae: Meconema thalassinum and M. meridionale)". Journal of Orthoptera Research. 5: 199–204. JSTOR 3503594.
- ↑ "Saving Species (Srs 3) - 09 Oct 12 - Ep 6". BBC.
- ↑ 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.
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