Holochlora japonica

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Holochlora japonica
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In Tokyo, Japan
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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 nawaeMatsumura & 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.

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References

  1. 1 2 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. 1 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