Meconema meridionale (Costa, 1860)
(Southern Oak Bush-cricket)

Taxonomic hierarchy:
SpeciesMeconema meridionale (Southern Oak Bush-cricket)
FamilyMECONEMATIDAE (oak bush crickets)
OrderORTHOPTERA (grasshoppers and crickets)
Division Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Widgery, J. 2002 Wildlife Reports - Grasshoppers and relatives British Wildlife Vol 13, No. 3: 207-208.

Meconema meridionale (Southern Oak Bush-cricket) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Meconema meridionale (Southern Oak Bush-cricket)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Meconema meridionale (Southern Oak Bush-cricket)

Has vestigial wings, whereas they are well-developed in the native, M. thallasinum.

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