Meconema

Meconema is the type genus of European bush crickets in the subfamily Meconematinae, tribe Meconematini and subtribe Meconematina.[2]

Meconema
Meconema thalassinum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Meconematinae
Tribe: Meconematini
Genus: Meconema
Serville 1831[1]

Species

The Orthoptera Species File[2] includes:

  1. Meconema meridionale Costa, 1860 - southern oak bush-cricket
  2. Meconema thalassinum (De Geer, 1773) - oak bush-cricket - type species (as Locusta varia Fabricius)

The Japanese species Meconema subpunctatum has been reassigned to the genus Xiphidiopsis (X. subpunctata (Motschulsky, 1866))[3]

References

  1. Serville (1831) Ann. Sci. nat. 22(86): 157.
  2. Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0; retrieved 5 March 2021)
  3. "Taxa display - Xiphidiopsis subpunctata". Orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
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