Listen to the southern oak bush-cricket
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About the southern oak bush-cricket
The southern oak bush-cricket is a insect in the family Tettigoniidae (order Orthoptera). Its conservation status on the IUCN Red List is “least concern”.
What does the southern oak bush-cricket sound like?
Insects make sound mechanically: crickets and grasshoppers rub a scraper against a file (stridulation), cicadas buckle ribbed membranes called tymbals, and bees and mosquitoes hum with their wingbeats.
From Wikipedia
Meconema meridionale is an insect in the family Tettigoniidae, known as the southern oak bush cricket.
It commonly measures 14 to 17 mm in length (not including antennae) and is carnivorous, arboreal and nocturnal. It has a more southerly distribution than its relative, Meconema thalassinum, being found in southern France, southwestern Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, the former Yugoslavia and, since 2001, the United Kingdom. It is a predator of the horse-chestnut leaf miner, Cameraria ohridella.
Related insects in the genus Meconema
More from the family Tettigoniidae
Great green bush-cricket
Tettigonia viridissima
Wart-biter
Decticus verrucivorus
Upland green bush-cricket
Tettigonia cantans
Sickle-bearing bush-cricket
Phaneroptera falcata
Dark bush-cricket
Pholidoptera griseoaptera
Short-winged cone-head
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Roesel's bush-cricket
Metrioptera roeselii
Sierra Nevadan Saddle Bush-cricket
Baetica ustulata
Speckled bush-cricket
Leptophyes punctatissima
Bog bush-cricket
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Long-winged conehead
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Frequently asked questions
What does a southern oak bush-cricket sound like?
You can hear 1 recording of the southern oak bush-cricket on this page. Insects make sound mechanically: crickets and grasshoppers rub a scraper against a file (stridulation), cicadas buckle ribbed membranes called tymbals, and bees and mosquitoes hum with their wingbeats.
Is the southern oak bush-cricket endangered?
The IUCN Red List classifies the southern oak bush-cricket as “least concern”.
What family does the southern oak bush-cricket belong to?
The southern oak bush-cricket (Meconema meridionale) belongs to the family Tettigoniidae in the order Orthoptera.
Sources & credits
- Meconema meridionale - sound by Baudewijn Odé – CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Wikidata Q493669 – CC0
- Wikipedia: Meconema meridionale – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Photo by Fritz Geller-Grimm – CC BY-SA 3.0