Holochlora

Tan, Ming Kai, 2014, An annotated checklist of the bush katydids (Orthoptera: Phaneropteridae: Phaneropterinae) from Singapore, including an illustrated key to species, Zootaxa 3884 (6), pp. 573-593 : 583-584

Holochlora sp.

Figs. 1 G, 2E, 4F, 5E, 7F, 10E, 10K, 11A, 11C, 11J, 12D Material examined. 5 males, 6 females: 1 female ( ZRC.ORT.1156), University Campus (Bukit Timah), coll. D. H. Murphy, November 1977; 1 male ( ZRC.ORT.1055), Pasir Ris mangrove, on Avicennia alba , coll. D. H. Murphy, 11 March 1990; 1 male ( ZRC.ORT.1056), Pasir Ris mangrove, on Avicennia alba , coll. D. H. Murphy, 26 July 1990; 1 female ( ZRC.ORT.1057), Loyang mangrove, on Bruguiera cylindrica , coll. D. H. Murphy, 12 March 1991; 1 female ( ZRC.ORT.1058), no label from D. H. Murphy’s collection; 1 female ( ZRC.ORT.1155), along Kranji Nature Trail, coll. “Group 1, 22”, 16 February 2008; 1 male ( ZRC.ORT.412), Pasir Ris mangrove boardwalk, coll. M. K. Tan, 4 March 2011; 1 female ( ZRC.ORT.411), Pasir Ris mangrove boardwalk, coll. M. K. Tan, 15 April 2011; 1 male ( ZRC.ORT.413), along Neo Tiew Lane 2, grassy patch, coll. M. K. Tan, R. W. J. Ngiam, J. J. Y. Chan, 27 June 2012; 1 female ( ZRC.ORT.436), exhumed Bidadari Cemetery, grassy plot, coll. M. K. Tan, 17 August 2012; 1 male ( ZRC.ORT.476), Chek Jawa mangrove boardwalk, coll. M. K. Tan & A. Y. H. Tan, 12 July 2013.

Taxonomy. D. H. Murphy identified the specimens to Holochlora venosa Stål, 1873 but comparison with type specimens and original description suggests otherwise.

Life history. This species appears to be fairly common in the mangroves in Singapore.

Remarks. This species was wrongly identified as Holochlora obtusa Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878 in Tan et al. (2013b); Tan (2013).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Male habitus in lateral view of Ducetia japonica (A), Elimaea (Elimaea) chloris (B), Elimaea (Rhaebelimaea) signata (C), Arnobia pilipes tropica (D), Holochlora paradoxa (E), Holochlora cf. signata signata (F), Holochlora sp. (G), Rectimarginalis ensis (H), Sympaestria cf. acutelobata (I), Phaneroptera (Phaneroptera) brevis (J), Leptoderes ornatipennis (K), Scambophyllum sanguinolentum (L). Scale bar: 1 mm.