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Xenadenacris macrorachis Gorochov, 2020

Nomenclature (1)

  • Xenadenacris macrorachis Gorochov, 2020: 1280.

    Holotype; male; 57a22bda-3e90-48bb-a8fe-4705ebda6c39; deposited at: Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute, St. Petersburg (ZIN); Cameroon: Sud-Ouest: Fako: Mount Cameroon, near Buea

References (1)

  • Gorochov, A.V. (2020) New and little-known crickets of the subfamily Phalangopsinae (Orthoptera; Gryllidae) 13. The subtribe Phaeophilacridina subtrib. n. Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal, 99(11), 1268–1282.

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

The name of the new species is derived from the morphological term “rachis” based on the latinized Greek word “ῥάχις” (a shaft, a backbone) due to a particularly large size of this structure in its male genitalia.

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