Original description:
Oecanthus euryelytra
Ichikawa 2001 Tettigonia, 3: 49, figs. 26 29, 33, 34.
Small-sized.
Sings like "ri-- ri-- ri--" at night. Bivoltine and overwinters
at the egg stage in western Japan. Description. Usually
pale green, sometimes pale brown in females and rarely in males.
Without maculae on any aprts of the body. Head prognathous with
the first joint of antennae of moderate length without any maculae,
rest segments of antennae pale colored. Pronotum about 1.5-1.7 times
as long as wide. Legs almost same as those of longicauda,
but never dark colored. Abdominal sternites usually pale colored,
rarely dark colored, but never pure black (rarely almost black).
Male thoracic dorsal gland different from indicus or longicauda.
Male tegmen wide, its venation is almost same as the congeners.
Male genitalia with low median projection on epiphallus. Ovipositor
of moderate length, longer than that of indicus (usually
5 ㎜ in length) but shorter than that of longicauda (usually
8.5 ㎜ or more in length). Tip of ovipositor as in Fig. 26. Measurements:
BL male 12.0, female 12.8; PL male 2.2, female 2.0; HFL male 8.1,
female 8.7; OL 8.0. FWB (fore wing breadth) male 4 ㎜. Holotype:
male, Izuo Park, Taisho-ku, Osaka, 15.ix.1983 (A. Ichikawa). Distribution:
Honshu (from Aomori to southwards), Shikoku, Kyushu, SW Islands;
Korea, Pakistan (?), Australia (?). Remarks: Very
similar to Oe. indicus,
but usually pale green, general habitus like Oe.
rufescens, but male tegmina broader, female
ovipositor longer. From longicauda,
it may be distinguished by shorter ovipositor (ovipositor of longicauda
usually 8.5 ㎜ or longer). Abdominal tergites usually not black.
Shapes of male genitalia and dorsal thoracic alluring gland are
different. Oe. indicus
in Ingrisch (1996) may be euryelytra
sp. nov. judging from his drawings of genitalia. After Kitao (1941),
the number of male stridulating teeth is as follows: Oe. euryelytra
sp. nov.: left 38, right 38 (n=5); Oe. longicauda: left 46,
right 48 (n=5).
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