Imitation Kudamaki - Imitation Kudamaki

Japanese: クダマキモドキ - くだまきもどき

An insect of the family Tettigoniidae in the order Orthoptera (illustration). A medium-sized katydid with shiny, leaf-like forewings. It lives in trees and is distributed from Honshu southward, to Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. In the Edo period, it was called "kudamaki" (winding a tube) to refer to insects such as shoe beetles and horseweeds, because their cry sounded like the sound of a spinning wheel being wound in weaving, and the name "kudamakimodoki" means that it is an insect that resembles them. The body length is about 23 mm for males and about 30 mm for females, with a forewing length of about 45 mm. The wing tip of females is about 55 mm, while males are slightly smaller.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

直翅目キリギリス科の昆虫（イラスト）。木の葉状のつやつやした前翅をもつ中型のキリギリスの仲間。樹上にすみ，本州以南，台湾，東南アジアに分布する。江戸時代にはクツワムシやウマオイなどをさして，その鳴声が，機織のとき紡車を巻く音のようだとして〈クダマキ(管巻)〉といっていたようで，クダマキモドキの名は，それらに似た虫という意である。体長は雄23mm内外，雌30mm内外，前翅長約45mm。翅端までは雌で55mm内外，雄はこれよりやや小さい。

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