Meconema meridionale

Meconema meridionale is an insect in the family Tettigoniidae, known as the southern oak bush cricket.^[2]

Meconema meridionale
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Orthoptera
Suborder:	Ensifera
Family:	Tettigoniidae
Subfamily:	Meconematinae
Tribe:	Meconematini
Genus:	Meconema
Species:	M. meridionale
Binomial name
Meconema meridionale (Costa, 1860)

It commonly measures 14 to 17 mm in length (not including antennae) and is carnivorous, arboreal and nocturnal.^[3] It has a more southerly distribution than its relative, Meconema thalassinum, being found in southern France, southwestern Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, the former Yugoslavia^[4] and, since 2001, the United Kingdom.^[5] It is a predator of the horse-chestnut leaf miner, Cameraria ohridella.^[6]

It is considered a species of least concern on the IUCN Red List as it is "widespread and common, and the population size is very large".^[1]

Close-Up of a Meconema meridionale