---
title: "Southern Oak Bush-cricket"
description: "Meconema meridionale — Insects & spiders. Meconema meridionale is an insect in the family Tettigoniidae, known as the southern oak bush cricket."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/southern-oak-bush-cricket
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Southern Oak Bush-cricket

> Meconema meridionale — Insects & spiders. Meconema meridionale is an insect in the family Tettigoniidae, known as the southern oak bush cricket.

- Scientific name: *Meconema meridionale*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest)
- iNaturalist observations: 15840
- Wikidata: [Q493669](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q493669)
- iNaturalist taxon: [362291](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/362291)

## Names

- en: Southern Oak Bush-cricket
- de: Südliche Eichenschrecke
- fr: Méconème fragile
- nl: Zuidelijke boomsprinkhaan
- pl: Nadrzewek południowy

## Countries with the most observations

DE (4554), GB (2218), US (1497), AT (1223), FR (1177), NL (821), PL (741), CZ (594), BE (400), IT (309), CH (224), LU (134)

## Summary

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.
It is considered a species of least concern on the IUCN Red List as it is "widespread and common, and the population…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meconema_meridionale

## Photo

![Southern Oak Bush-cricket](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/southern-oak-bush-cricket/medium.jpg)

Photo: Stephan Kleinfelder · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/127014676

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/southern-oak-bush-cricket?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).