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Anderus fiordensis (Salmon, 1950)

Nomenclature (8)

  • Zealandosandrus fiordensis Salmon, 1950: 167.

    Holotype; individual; 163b84af-98d1-4926-99d2-637f6443bbec; deposited at: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa - Entomology (MONZ); New Zealand: Southland: Fjordland, Caswell Sound, Leslie Clearing

  • Hemiandrus fiordensis (Salmon, 1950) in Johns, 1997: 129.
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  • Anderus fiordensis (Salmon, 1950) in Trewick, Taylor Smith & Morgan-Richards, 2024: 11.
  • Anderus fiordensis (Salmon, 1950) in Trewick & Morgan-Richards, 2025: 412, 417.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • Jewell, T. (2007) Two new species of Hemiandrus (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae) from Fiordland National Park, New Zealand. Zootaxa, 1542, 49–57.
  • Johns, P.M. (1997) The Gondwanaland weta: family Anostostomatidae (formerly in Stenopelmatidae, Henicidae or Mimnermidae): nomenclatural problems, world checklist, new genera and species. Journal of Orthoptera Research, 6, 125–138. Available at http://wetageta.massey.ac.nz/PDFs/Articles_from_Jo/Johns%201997.pdf
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  • Otte, D. (2000) Orthoptera Species File 8. Gryllacrididae, Stenopelmatidae, Cooloolidae, Schizodactylidae, Anastostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 97 pp.
  • Salmon, J.T. (1950) A revision of the New Zealand wetas - Anostostominae (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae). Dominion Museum Records in Entomology, 1, 121–177. Available at https://bugz.ento.org.nz/detail/e3878a90-ce05-401a-a30a-d75d1b60d9ad
  • Trewick, S.A. & Morgan-Richards, M. (2025) Two new species of New Zealand Anderus Trewick et al. 2024 ground wētā (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae). Zootaxa, 5666(3), 408–418. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5666.3.5
  • Trewick, S.A., Taylor Smith, B.L. & Morgan-Richards, M. (2024) Wētā Aotearoa—Polyphyly of the New Zealand Anostostomatidae (Insecta: Orthoptera). Insects, 15(787), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15100787

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

After the type locality in Fiordland.

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