Oxya yezoensis Shiraki, 1910 is a animal in the Acrididae family, order Orthoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Oxya yezoensis Shiraki, 1910

Oxya yezoensis Shiraki, 1910

Oxya yezoensis is a Japanese native rice-field grasshopper, a popular edible insect often cooked with soy sauce, sugar and sweet wine.

Family
Genus
Oxya
Order
Orthoptera
Class
Insecta

About Oxya yezoensis Shiraki, 1910

Oxya yezoensis is a rice-field grasshopper species that is native to Japan. Its Japanese common name is kobane-inago. This grasshopper is a popular edible insect, and it is commonly cooked using soy sauce, sugar, and sweet wine.

Photo: (c) Observações Naturalistas | Bruno Uehara, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Observações Naturalistas | Bruno Uehara · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Orthoptera Acrididae Oxya

More from Acrididae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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