Holochlora japonica | |
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In Tokyo, Japan | |
Scientific classification | |
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 | |
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.
The Japanese broadwinged katydid was first described in 1878 by Swiss entomologist Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl in his Monographie der Phaneropteriden. The type locality is in Japan.
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
- ^ Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D. "species Holochlora japonica Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
- ^ 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
Taxon identifiers | |
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Holochlora japonica |
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