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🧬 Biological Classification (Kingdom to Species)Oxya sinuosa

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Acrididae

Genus

Oxya

Species

Oxya sinuosa

Insecta🌿 Herbivore

Rice grasshopper

Oxya sinuosa (Rice grasshopper · Rice grasshopper)

🛡️ Conservation Status (IUCN Red List)NE (Not Evaluated)

Not Evaluated (NE) on the IUCN Red List yet.

Geological Era

Extant

Diet

Herbivore

Length · Height

2.1~3.5cm · No data

Mass · Top Speed

No data · No data

Habitat & Fossil Locality

Grasslands where plants grow and around farms (recorded collected at a farm in Yangyang, Gangwon-do, Korea)

💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed

💡 A body length of 35 mm is slightly longer than the diameter of a Korean 500-won coin (26.5 mm) (Comparison).
💡 In Korea, 7 insect species—including the two-spotted cricket, yellow mealworm (Gal-saek-geo-jeo-ri, a Korean beetle name) larvae, and Japanese rhinoceros beetle larvae—are approved as food ingredients, and the rice grasshopper is one of them.

Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.

#우리벼메뚜기#Oxya sinuosa

📖 1. Overview

The rice grasshopper is an orthopteran grasshopper frequently referred to as Oxya chinensis sinuosa in scientific papers. It is a representative edible insect eaten in Korea since olden times.

🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology

Its body length is 21–35 mm, and it is a hemimetabolous insect that does not go through a pupal stage.

🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior

It appears between August and October and feeds on plants. When dried, protein accounts for about 74% of its weight.

🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea

It is one of the 7 edible insect species approved as food ingredients in Korea, where it has long been eaten as food and used as medicine. It is listed as 'U-ri-byeo-me-ttu-gi' (Korean name) on the National List of Species of Korea.