Galloisiana yuasai

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Galloisiana yuasai
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Grylloblattodea
Family: Grylloblattidae
Genus: Galloisiana
Species:
G. yuasai
Binomial name
Galloisiana yuasai
Asahina 1959

Galloisiana yuasai is a species of insect in the family Grylloblattidae that is endemic to Japan. Its type locality is Tokugo Pass, Japan. [1]

Galloisiana yuasai is found in montane habitats in central Honshu, including in the southern Hida Mountains where it is sympatric with the morphologically larger Galloisiana kiyosawai . [2] It can be found alongside rocky stream banks. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Wipfler, Benjamin; Bai, Ming; Schoville, Sean; Dallai, Romano; Uchifune, Toshiki; Machida, Ryuichiro; Cui, Yingying; Beutel, Rolf G. (2014-01-20). "Ice Crawlers (Grylloblattodea) – the history of the investigation of a highly unusual group of insects". Journal of Insect Biodiversity. 2 (2): 1–25. doi: 10.12976/jib/2014.2.2 . ISSN   2147-7612 . Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  2. Schoville SD, Uchifune T, Machida R (March 2013). "Colliding fragment islands transport independent lineages of endemic rock-crawlers (Grylloblattodea: Grylloblattidae) in the Japanese archipelago". Mol Phylogenet Evol. 66 (3): 915–27. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.11.022. PMID   23220515.