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Crux boudica Trewick, 2024

Nomenclature (1)

  • Crux boudica Trewick, 2024: 535.

    Holotype; female; NMNZ AI.062526; deposited at: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (NMNZ); New Zealand: Southland: Rakiura-Stewart Island, Ulva Island

Nomenclature references (1)

  • Trewick, S.A. (2024) Two new genera of tokoriro (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: Macropathinae) from Aotearoa New Zealand. Zootaxa, 5481(5), 531–546. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5481.5.3

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

After Boudica, the renowned warrior queen of the Icene, who is said to have ridden a scythed chariot, in recognition of the unusual armaments carried by the female.

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