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Hemiandrus merope Trewick, Taylor Smith & Morgan-Richards, 2021

Nomenclature (2)

  • Hemiandrus merope Trewick, Taylor Smith & Morgan-Richards, 2021

    Holotype; female; NMNZ AI.041949; deposited at: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa - Entomology (MONZ); New Zealand: Wellington: Wellington, Kapiti Island, Rangatira Loop track

  • Hemiandrus merope Trewick, Taylor Smith & Morgan-Richards, 2021 in Trewick & Morgan-Richards, 2026

References (2)

  • Trewick, S.A. & Morgan-Richards, M. (2026) Five new species of New Zealand Hemiandrus Ander 1938 ground wētā (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 53(1), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1002/njz2.70007
  • Trewick, S.A., Taylor Smith, B.L. & Morgan-Richards, M. (2021) Ecology and systematics of the wine wētā and allied species, with description of four new Hemiandrus species. New Zealand J. Zool., 48(1), 47–80.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Merope, faintest of the Pleiades (sometimes referred to as the ‘lost Pleiad’ because she was at first not seen by astronomers or charted like her sister stars). The female of this species has the faintest (missing) structures on her sixth sternite.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon Valid names
Rank Extant Fossil Invalid Total
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