Meconema meridionale Costa, 1860

Skejo, Josip, Rebrina, Fran, Szövényi, Gergely, Puskás, Gellért & Tvrtković, Nikola, 2018, The first annotated checklist of Croatian crickets and grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Ensifera, Caelifera), Zootaxa 4533 (1), pp. 1-95 : 20

9. Meconema meridionale Costa, 1860 = ljuskokrili staklasti konjic

First faunistic record for Croatia: Krauss 1879

Also reported as: M. brevipenne Yersin, 1860 ( Krauss 1879)

Distribution in Croatia: Widespread but not numerous in records. Present in all regions except Dubrovnik area (not recorded), but more common in the Mediterranean part. Probably overlooked.

Distribution in Europe: Probably native to Northern Spain, southern France, Italy and Northern Croatian coast, but range expanded all the way to Ireland and Northern Germany in the north, and Central Slovakia, Southern Poland and Serbia in the east ( Hochkirch et al. 2016).