MECONEMATIDAE
(oak bush crickets)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
Meconema meridionale
Southern Oak Bush-cricket
Species 1 ident. refs
Meconema thalassinum
Oak Bush-cricket
Male (Click to open)
 		Species 30 images 1 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
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
Holst, K.Th. 1986 The Saltatoria (Bush-Crickets, Crickets and Grass-Hoppers) of Northern Europe Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 16, 127pp, E. J. Brill / Scandinavian Science Press Ltd.
Widgery, J. 2002 Wildlife Reports - Grasshoppers and relatives British Wildlife Vol 13, No. 3: 207-208.

MECONEMATIDAE (oak bush crickets) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for MECONEMATIDAE (oak bush crickets)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for MECONEMATIDAE (oak bush crickets)
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