Original description:
Trigonidium japonicum
Ichikawa 2001 Tettigonia 3: 50, figs. 41-43.
Small-sized. Legs without spots. Wing
venations similar both in males and females, having weak false veins.
Female fore wings pale-colored. Usually univoltine and overwinters
at the nymphal stage. Description. Small and pale
colored with no maculae on body and legs. Head dark brown, with
blackish antennae. Maxillary palpi black, slightly dilated. Pronotum
blackish without noticeable patterns. Legs uniformly light brown,
without maculae. Abdomen blackish below. Tegmen black, shining,
almost same venation between both sexes, slightly light colored
in females; venation is somewhat intermediate between cicindeloides
and pallipes,
with discontinuous false veins between longitudinal veins, and with
few transverse veins. Male genitalia is similar to those of cicindeloides.
Ovipositor of moderate sized, pale testaceous and curved upwards,
with serrate apex. Measurements: BL male 4.1, female
4.3; PL male 1.0, female 1.1; HFL male 4.0, female 4.2; OL 2.0. Holotype:
male, Yata-kyuryou, Yamato-takada City, Nara Pref., 12.vi.1986 (A.
Ichikawa) Paratypes: 1 female, same data and collector
as the holotype. Distribution: Hokkaido, Honshu,
Shikoku, Kyushu; Korea. Remarks: Tr.
haani may be close to this new species.
Tr. cicindeloides
has well developed false veins, Tr. pallipes
has no false veins, but transverse veins. Two more new species of
this genus and genus Natula are to be referred to Sugimoto (2001),
see below.
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