Skip to main content
Orthoptera Species File
Species

Meconema meridionale Costa, 1860

Southern Oak Bush-cricket; Le Méconème fragile; Südliche Eichenschrecke
CollectionObject 1505718; 78f218fc-0a3c-4770-9c35-44d11d5b5889: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505718; 78f218fc-0a3c-4770-9c35-44d11d5b5889: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505718; 78f218fc-0a3c-4770-9c35-44d11d5b5889: female, ventral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505718; 78f218fc-0a3c-4770-9c35-44d11d5b5889: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505718; 78f218fc-0a3c-4770-9c35-44d11d5b5889: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505718; 78f218fc-0a3c-4770-9c35-44d11d5b5889: female, labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505718; 78f218fc-0a3c-4770-9c35-44d11d5b5889: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505718; 78f218fc-0a3c-4770-9c35-44d11d5b5889: female, on drawer (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1505718; 78f218fc-0a3c-4770-9c35-44d11d5b5889: female, anterior view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1578817; 225c2aa1-b442-4a83-bccf-446aa9ac1482: female (BG: Varna). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1579351; 9327a714-8177-4351-a3be-af8dfc66730d: male. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1585025; 146ee61f-ab46-44f8-9643-5f78d076cd6c: female. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1585025; 146ee61f-ab46-44f8-9643-5f78d076cd6c: female. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1590700; cf3a44f9-a777-48a2-9498-672c180e3161: female (Germany, Trier, 20.11.2020). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1592004; c7f8eeb7-62cf-4a2d-a1e6-8e28c25c3c9f: male (BG: Varna). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1592005; 0b4ecaf5-8b57-4bc2-ac0e-562f5bb1fe09: male (Germany, Trier, 20.11.2020). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1593803; 8866dd54-709a-46d1-9e16-10d63fc43b0b: male (SRB, Ravnje, 01.08.2021). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1593803; 8866dd54-709a-46d1-9e16-10d63fc43b0b: female (SRB, Ravnje, 01.08.2021). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (39)

  • Meconema meridionale Costa, 1860: 14.

    Syntype; beaaccee-3a18-4b03-93d4-348c6758b1b4; Italy

  • Meconema brevipenne Yersin, 1860: 519.

    Holotype; female; 78f218fc-0a3c-4770-9c35-44d11d5b5889; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); France: Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur: Hyères

  • Meconema meridionale Costa, 1860 in Skejo, Rebrina, Szövényi, Puskás & Tvrtković, 2018: 20.
  • Meconema meridionale Costa, 1860 in Krištín, Čapka, Zlámal & Demeš, 2022: 385.

References (36)

  • Costa, O.G. (1860) Fauna del regno di Napoli. Ortotteri, 10. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=OOZAAAAAcAAJ
  • Yersin (1860) Note sur quelques orthoptères nouveaux ou peu connus d'Europe. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 8, 509–537. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/96026#page/33/mode/1up
  • Dubrony (1878) Liste des Orthoptères recueillis jusqu'ici en Ligurie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, 12, 5–23. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/95545#page/13/mode/1up
  • Krauss, H.A. (1879) Die Orthopteren-Fauna Istriens. Sitzungsberichte der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse (Abt. 1), 78, 451–542. Available at http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/SBAWW_78_0451-0544.pdf
  • Redtenbacher, J. (1900) Die Dermapteren und Orthopteren (Ohrwürmer und Geradflügler) von Österreich-Ungarn und Deutschland. Wien, 148 pp. Available at http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/MON-E-ORTH_0004_0001-0148.pdf
  • Karny, H.H. (1907) Die Orthopterenfauna des Küstengebietes von Österreich-Ungarn. Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 52, 17–52, figs. 1–7. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35140#page/91/mode/1up
  • Chopard, L. (1922) Orthoptères et dermaptères. In Faune de France. Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris. Vol. 3, 212 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1093568
  • Ramme, W. (1927) Die Dermapteren und Orthopteren Siziliens und Kretas, mit kritischen Beiträgen und Revision aus den Gattungen Hololampra Sauss., Acrometopa Fieb., Pholidoptera Br., Platycleis Fieb., u.a. Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 3, 111–200. Available at http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/138731
  • Zeuner, F.E. (1931) Die Orthopterenfauna des Tessin (mit kritischen Bemerkungen zu H. Fruhstorfer, Die Orthopteren der Schweiz). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 29–36.
  • Chopard, L. (1951) Orthoptéroïdes. In Faune de France. Fédération Française des Sociétés de Sciences Naturelles, Paris. Vol. 56, 359 pp. Available at http://faunedefrance.org/bibliotheque/docs/L.CHOPARD%28FdeFr56%29Orthopteroides.pdf
  • Beier, M. (1966) Tettigoniidae: Subfam. Meconematinae, Mecopodinae, Phyllophorinae. In Orthopterorum Catalogus. Vol. 9, 247–342 pp.
  • Harz, K. (1969) Die Orthopteren Europas I. Series Entomologica, 5, 1–749.
  • Kaltenbach, A.P. (1970) Zusammensetzung und Herkunft der Orthopterenfauna im pannonischen Raum Österreichs. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 74, 159–186. Available at http://www.biologiezentrum.at/pdf_frei_remote/ANNA_74_0159-0186.pdf
  • Nadig, A. (1981) Über einige für die Schweiz und angrenzende Gebiete neue oder wenig bekannte Saltatoria (Orthoptera). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 54, 325–332. Available at http://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=seg-001%3A1981%3A54%3A%3A182#336
  • Bellmann, H. (1985) Heuschrecken: beobachten, bestimmen. Verlag J. Neumann-Neudamm, Melsungen (JNN-Naturführer), 1–210 pp.
  • Heller, K.-G. (1988) Bioakustik der europäischen Laubheuschrecken. In Ökologie in Forschung und Anwendung. J. Margraf, Weikersheim. Vol. 1, 1–358 pp.
  • Van As, B. & Kleukers, R.M.J.C. (1994) Meconema meridionale, de zuidelijke boomsprinkhaan, nieuw voor Nederland (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Entomologische Berichten, 54(10), 181–185. Available at http://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/1012313
  • Bellmann, H. & Luquet, G.C. (1995) Guide des sauterelles, grillons et criquets d'Europe occidentale. Delachaux et Niestle, Lausanne, 1–383 pp.
  • Vahed, K. (1996) Prolonged copulation in oak bushcrickets (Tettigoniidae: Meconematinae: Meconema thalassinum and M. meridionale). Journal of Orthoptera Research, 5, 199–204.
  • Coray, A. & Lehmann, A.W. (1998) Taxonomie der Heuschrecken Deutschlands (Orthoptera): Formale Aspekte der wissenschaftlichen Namen. Articulata Beiheft, 7, 63–152. Available at http://dgfo-articulata.de/downloads/articulata/beihefte/articulata_beiheft_07_coray_lehmann.pdf
  • Detzel, P. (1998) Die Heuschrecken Baden-Württembergs. Eugen Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1–580 pp.
  • Defaut, B. (1999) Synopsis des orthoptères de France. Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques, 2, 87 pp. Available at http://ascete.org/ressources/le-synopsis-des-orthopteres-de-france/
  • Defaut, B. (2001) La détermination des Orthoptères de France. Bedeilhac, 85 pp.
  • Braud, Y., Sardet, E. & Morin, D. (2002) Actualisation du catalogue des Orthoptéroïdes de l'île de Corse (France). Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques, 7, 5–22. Available at http://insecta-etudes.com/Braud_Sardet_Morin_2002_Orthoptera_Corse.pdf
  • Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M., Cogo, A. & Odé, B. (2002) Guida al riconoscimento e allo studio di cavallette, grilli, mantidi e insetti affini del Veneto: Blattaria, Mantodea, Isoptera, Orthoptera, Phasmatodea, Dermaptera, Embidiina. Museo Naturalistico Archaeologico di Vicenza, Vicenza, 1–592 pp.
  • Voisin, J.-F. (2003) Atlas des Orthoptères et des Mantides de France. Patrimoines Naturels, 60, 1–104.
  • Nagy, B. (2005) Orthoptera fauna of the Carpathian basin - recent status of knowledge and a revised checklist. Entomofauna Carpathica, 17, 14–22.
  • Hollier, J.A. (2007) An annotated list of the species described by Alexander Yersin (1825-1863) and of the Yersin type material housed in the Museum d'histoire naturelle in Geneva. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 80, 71–77. Available at http://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?pid=seg-001%3A2007%3A80%3A%3A6#87
  • Gardiner, T., Benton, T. & Harvey, A.W. (2009) Southern oak bush-cricket Meconema meridionale (Costa) new to Essex. Essex Naturalist, 26, 62–63.
  • Roesti, C. & Keist, B. (2009) Die Stimmen der Heuschrecken. Haupt Verlag, 144 pp. + DVD.
  • Massa, B., Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M., Kleukers, R.M.J.C. & Odé, B. (2012) Fauna d'Italia. Orthoptera. Calderini, Bologna, Vol. 48, 563 pp.
  • Llucià Pomares, D. & Quiñones, J. (2013) Nueva aportación al conocimiento de los Meconematinae Burmeister, 1838 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) de la Península Ibérica. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa, 53, 7–30.
  • Liana, A. & Michalcewicz, J. (2014) Meconema meridionale Costa, 1860 (Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea: Meconematidae) – the first record in Poland. Polish Journal of Entomology, 83(3), 181–188. Available at http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/pjen.2014.83.issue-3/pjen-2014-0013/pjen-2014-0013.xml
  • Pavićević, D. & Ivković, S. (2015) Meconema meridionale Costa, 1860 (Orthoptera Tettigonioidea Meconematidae) - the first data for the fauna of Serbia. Nature Conservation, 65(1), 55–58. [in Serbian]
  • Skejo, J., Rebrina, F., Szövényi, G., Puskás, G. & Tvrtković, N. (2018) The first annotated checklist of Croatian crickets and grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Ensifera, Caelifera). Zootaxa, 4533(1), 1–95.
  • Krištín, A., Čapka, J., Zlámal, N. & Demeš, P. (2022) First records of the alien bush-crickets Rhacocleis annulata Fieber, 1853 and Yersinella raymondii (Yersin, 1860) (Orthoptera) in Slovakia. BioInvasions Records, 11(2), 383–389.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Reference to southern distribution.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1012