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Banza nitida

species of insect

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ10426207 ↗
Source-derived summary

Banza nitida, the Hawai'i rainforest katydid, is a species of conehead katydid endemic to the Big Island of Hawai'i, where it inhabits native forests across the island.

Description

Banza nitida is a green and brown conehead katydid approximately 20mm across with uniformly green antennae.

Distribution and habitat

Historically, Banza nitida was present in native forests across the island, with collections near Kona, Kohala, and the Stainback highway near Hilo.

Editorial summary

“Banza nitida” enters the record as species of insect. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Banza, nitida and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 23, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q10426207. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Banza nitida” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.