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Pharmacus perfidus Hegg & Morgan-Richards & Trewick 2022, sp. nov. ...
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Platycleis rahmoiensis Jaiswara & Shah & Ali & Usmani 2022, sp. nov. ...
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Pharmacus perfidus Hegg & Morgan-Richards & Trewick 2022, sp. nov. ...
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Pharmacus perfidus sp. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 9AB3A946-049F-42B6-8EBE-D57ED33CB3E0 Figs 1–2, 6, 8J, 9H, 11G–I, 13G–I, 15E, 17C, 18G Diagnosis A mid-sized cave wētā known only from the alpine regions of the Takitimu Mountains in Southland. It is among the smallest of all Pharmacus species. Body colour is brown, with a distinctive dark brown or black frons. The species shares the habitat with Talitropsis chopardi . The latter is larger, has fewer, larger spines on the hind tibiae, has unarmed hind tarsi, and generally shows a prominent dorsal yellow stripe or diamond on the abdomen in the Takitimu Mountains population. Etymology ‘ Perfĭdus ’ (noun) is Latin for ‘criminal’, ‘crook’. Pharmacus perfidus means ‘criminal sorcerer’. Try scrambling on the jagged, crumbly ridgelines of the Takitimu Mountains at night and you will know why. It is also banished to an isolated mountain range, a great distance away from all other Pharmacus species (see Fig. 6). Material examined (see also Supp. ... : Published as part of Hegg, Danilo, Morgan-Richards, Mary & Trewick, Steven A., 2022, High alpine sorcerers: revision of the cave wētā genus Pharmacus Pictet & de Saussure (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: Macropathinae), with the description of six new species and three new subspecies, pp. 1-58 in European Journal of Taxonomy 808 (1) on pages 44-45, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.808.1721, http://zenodo.org/record/6419368 ...
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Animalia; Arthropoda; Biodiversity; Insecta; Orthoptera; Pharmacus; Pharmacus perfidus; Rhaphidophoridae; Taxonomy
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6425142 https://zenodo.org/record/6425142
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