Chinese rice grasshopper (Oxya chinensis)

Chinese rice grasshopper (Oxya chinensis) is an animal species in Acrididae, medium-sized grasshoppers, green with brown and yellow in color, sexually dimorphic, arboreal life by spending time on leaves on low bushes in forests and agricultural land.

O. chinensis has a wrinkled and hairy surface. The sides and top are green. The sides and upper side are bordered by a linear brown line with a yellow gradient from the eyes to above the hind legs. The wings have a brown and green color.

The stomach is cylindrical, jointed and brownish green. The head is triangular in shape with a sharp point at the mouth, flat front, a pair of large brown or green eyes and a pair of brown antennae.

The legs are green, have several joints with the tips of the soles which have a pair of spines. The hind legs are very large and half the length of the body with large joints and are brownish in color.

Chinese rice grasshopper lives arboreal on the leaves and stems of low plants in the bushes at the edge of the forest and agricultural land, especially rice fields. The numbers are very abundant, easy to find and breed throughout the season.

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Infraorder: Acrididea
Superfamily: Acridoidea
Family: Acrididae
Subfamily: Oxyinae
Tribe: Oxyini
Genus: Oxya
Species: Oxya chinensis
Subspecies: Oxya chinensis ssp. chinensis, Oxya chinensis ssp. sinuosa

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