Meconema thalassinum (DeGeer, 1773)
oak bush-cricket
on trees and shrubs
Quercus robur, Dronten © Arnold Grosscurt: old galls, perhaps of Andricus curvator.
opened gall, with egg . . .
. . . that produced this larva
parasite
Eggs are deposited in bark fissures, old galls of Biorhiza pallida (Leo Blommers, oral comm.), and as testified by the pictures above, in old bud galls. Houard suggests that the eggs also may be deposited in unfolding buds.
host plants
Mainly on
Quercus robur.
distribution within Europe
synonyms
Meconema varium (Fabricius, 1775).
references
Houard (1908a).