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Nihoa Banza Conehead Katydid
Plate 1 of 2. Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021 (CC BY 4.0) · via Wikimedia
IUCN VU · Vulnerable

Nihoa Banza Conehead Katydid

Banza nihoa

The Nihoa conehead katydid (Banza nihoa) is a species of katydid which is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Nihoa (Northwestern Hawaiian Islands). It is one of the ten species in the genus Banza, all of them native to Hawaii, although it is the sister species to the remaining nine, and may belong in a separate genus. It gets its food mostly from plant leaves, but because of the low population, it does not do significant...

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48118.