本州以南に広く分布し、台湾や中国からも知られる。通常短翅型が知られ、稀に無翅型や有翅型が見られる。ススキなどイネ科植物から得られることが多いが、枯れ枝にも生息する。N. minorに極めてよく似るが、留翅刺毛が発達しないことで区別できる。この2種は異所的に分布するが、小笠原諸島では例外的に共存する。食菌性。

This species is widely distributed south of Honshu and is also known from Taiwan and China. The micropterae are usually obtained, but apterae and macropterae are rarely found. It is usually obtained from grasses such as Miscanthus sinensis, but it also lives on dead branches. It is very similar to N. minor, but can be distinguished by having short wing-retaining setae even in macropterae. These two species are distributed ectopically, but they coexist exceptionally in the Ogasawara Islands. Fungus-feeder.

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  Female microptera

  

  Female microptera

  

  Female microptera

  

  Female microptera

  

  Female microptera

  

  Female microptera, head and thorax

  

  Female microptera, head and thorax