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Holochlora japonica

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Species of cricket-like animal

Holochlora japonica
In Tokyo, Japan
Scientific classification Edit this 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.

  • female female
  • egg laying egg laying

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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
Holochlora japonica
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