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

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[1]

Holochlora nawae Matsumura & Shiraki, 1908

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 edit

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 edit

  1. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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