Japanese broadwinged katydid
Holochlora japonica
The Japanese broadwinged katydid is a green bush cricket from eastern Asia. It is about 2 centimetres long. Its green body blends in nicely with the leaves.
Lives in
Eastern Asia, including Japan
Length
2.1 cm (0.83 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not sting and would rather hide than meet you.
What does it eat?
Like its bush cricket relatives, it munches on leaves.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 4 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 1.2 seconds⚡moves 41 times its own body length every second
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How fast is it?
Japanese broadwinged katydid about 3.1 km/h (1.9 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It was first described in 1878 by a Swiss scientist called Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl.
2
The very first one that scientists described was found in Japan.
3
The female has an egg-laying tube at the end of her body. It has a dark tip and black, saw-like lines on the sides.
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Most asked questions about Japanese broadwinged katydid
?Where does the Japanese broadwinged katydid live?
In eastern Asia. The first one scientists described came from Japan.
?How big is the Japanese broadwinged katydid?
About 2 centimetres long, a medium-sized bush cricket.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Holochlora japonica
- Named by
- Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Holochlora japonica (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by urasimaru from Tokyo, Japan. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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