Biology:Holochlora japonica

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Short description: Species of cricket-like animal

Holochlora japonica
サトクダマキモドキの産卵 Holochlora japonica (15897243675).jpg
In Tokyo, Japan
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Tettigoniidae
Subfamily: Phaneropterinae
Genus: Holochlora
Species:
H. japonica
Binomial name
Holochlora japonica
Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878
Synonyms[1]

Holochlora nawae Matsumura & Shiraki, 1908

Holochlora japonica, the Japanese broadwinged katydid, is a species of katydid or bush cricket native to eastern Asia in the large subfamily Phaneropterinae.[1]

The Japanese broadwinged katydid was first described in 1878 by Swiss entomologist Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl in his Monographie der Phaneropteriden.[2] The type locality is in Japan.[2]

Description

It is a medium sized bush cricket with a green body: the length of the type specimen, a male, is 21 mm (0.83 in). The ovipositor of females is darkened at the tip, with black, serrated lines on the sides.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D.. "species Holochlora japonica Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878". Orthoptera Species File. http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1138889. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Brunner von Wattenwyl (1878) Monographie der Phaneropteriden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien (Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien) 28: 1-401, pl. 1-8

Wikidata ☰ Q10525416 entry