luanchong - What is it?

frankencow
 December 16, 2010, 07:16 AM posted in General Discussion

I'm reading this Taiwanese book and came across "䜌蟲“ (luanchong?) which appears to be a kind of bug similar to a grasshopper.    The first character is actually written with the "mouth" taking up the entire bottom.  I cannot find this word in my dictionary or even Chinese wikipedia!  Yet here it is in a children's book.  How can this be? 

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bweedin
 December 16, 2010, 07:32 AM

now I'm dying to know!

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frankencow
 December 16, 2010, 08:35 AM

I also found 松蟲 "songchong" which appears to be a "pine bug" and again is some kind of grasshopper not found in my dictionary or Chinese wikipedia.  Are  China and Taiwan lacking in entomologists?  Maybe there is a niche field here...