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  subfamily Meconematinae Burmeister, 1838
tribe Meconematini Burmeister, 1838
genus Meconema Serville, 1831

species Meconema thalassinum (De Geer, 1773)

• Common name(s):  Oak Bush-cricket; Drumming Katydid; Le Méconème varié; Le Méconème tambourinaire; Gemeine Eichenschrecke
• Images:
  • male (Storrs, CT, USA)
  • female (Poznan, Poland)
• Links:
  • Singing Insects of North America
  • Specimens in German collections (DORSA)
• Distribution:
  • Central Europe, introduced to North America (British Columbia and southern New England)
• Specimen data are available.
• Citations (37):
  • De Geer. 1773. Mémoires pour servir à l' histoire des insectes 3:433 >> Locusta thalassina
  • Caudell. 1912. Genera Insectorum 138:4
  • Leonhardt. 1913. Ber. Vers. bot. zool. Ver. Rheinl.-Westfal. 137
  • Karny. 1913. Tab. Best. einheim. Ins. 10
  • Ramme. 1913. Berlin Ent. Z. 58:232
  • Ebner. 1913. Arch. f. Naturgesch, Berlin 79A/l:85
  • Chopard. 1922. Faune de France 3:49, 72 >> Meconema thalassina  
  • Gurney. 1960. Proc. Entom. Soc. Washington 62:95
  • Harz. 1964. In Brohmer. Fauna Deutschl. 9(A):172
  • Karabag. 1964. Comm. Fac. Sci. Univ. Ankara, Ser. C Sc. nat. 13:49 >> Note: Anatolia
  • Götz. 1965. In Brohmer [Ed.]. Die Tierwelt Mitteleuropas 4(6):10
  • Harz. 1969. Ser. Entomol. 5:171  
  • Johnstone. 1970. Entomol. News 81(3):62-65
  • Sismondo. 1978. Entomol. News 89:244 >> Meconema thalassinum
  • Warchalowska-Sliwa. 1984. Folia biologica (Krakow) 32:253-269
  • Bellmann. 1985. Heuschrecken: beobachten, bestimmen 86 >> Note: = M. varium >> Meconema thalassinum
  • Heller, K.-G. 1988. Ökol. Forsch. Anwend 1:72 >> Note: song
  • Haes, E.C.M. 1993. Zoological Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly 2 1993:6-8, illustr.
  • van As & Kleukers. 1994. Entomol Ber. (Amsterdam) 54(10):183 >> Note: comparison to M. meridionale
  • Fowles. 1994. Dyfed Invert. Grp. Newsl. 28:3
  • Bellmann & Luquet. 1995. Guide des sauterelles, grillons et criquets d'Europe occidentale 102-103 >> Meconema thalassinum
  • Shapiro. 1996. Ph.D thesis, biology, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook >> Meconema thalassinum
  • Vahed. 1996. Jour. Orth. Res. 5:199-204 >> Meconema thalassinum
  • Warchalowska-Sliwa. 1998. Folia biologica (Krakow) 46:172
  • Detzel [Ed.]. 1998. Die Heuschrecken Baden-Württembergs 220 >> Meconema thalassinum
  • Coray & A.W. Lehmann. 1998. Articulata Beiheft 7:81 >> Meconema thalassinum
  • Defaut. 1999. Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocenotiques 2:9 >> Meconema thalassinum
  • Szövényi & B. Nagy. 1999. Savaria 25(2):105 >> Meconema thalassinum
  • Nagy, A. & B. Nagy. 2000. Dunantuli Dolg. Term. Tud. Sorozat 10:154 >> Meconema thalassinum
  • Defaut [Ed.]. 2001. La détermination des Orthoptères de France 11 >> Meconema thalassinum
  • Fontana, Buzzetti, Cogo & Odé. 2002. Guida al riconoscimento e allo studio di cavallette, grilli, mantidi e insetti affini del Veneto: Blattaria, Mantodea, Isoptera, Orthoptera, Phasmatodea, Dermaptera, Embidiina 306 >> Meconema thalassinum
  • Voisin [Ed.]. 2003. Patrimoines Naturels 60:17 >> Meconema thalassinum
  • Bland. 2003. The Orthoptera of Michigan: Biology, Keys, and Descriptions of Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets 159 >> Meconema thalassinum
  • Capinera, R.D. Scott & T.J. Walker. 2004. Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids, and Crickets of the United States 183, Plate 40 >> Meconema thalassinum
  • Nagy, B. 2005. Entomofauna Carpathica 17:17 >> Meconema thalassinum
  • Cannings. 2007. Jour. Entomol. Soc. Brit. Columbia 104:91-92 >> Meconema thalassinum
  • Willemse, F.M.H. & L.P.M. Willemse. 2008. Articulata Beiheft 13:34 >> Meconema thalassinum
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Europe, Middle Europe, Netherlands, Utrecht sur l'Orme
  • Kind of type:  unspecified primary type
  • Status of type:  lost?
  • Location of type:  NHRS Stockholm

• synonym varium (Fabricius, 1775)