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Anderus luna (Taylor Smith, Trewick & Morgan-Richards, 2016)

Nomenclature (2)

  • Hemiandrus luna Taylor Smith, Trewick & Morgan-Richards, 2016: 373.

    Holotype; female; fb7d16a3-d1e6-4282-96b9-1bbe28a502d8; deposited at: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa - Entomology (MONZ); New Zealand: West Coast: Lewis Pass

  • Anderus luna (Taylor Smith, Trewick & Morgan-Richards, 2016) in Trewick, Taylor Smith & Morgan-Richards, 2024: 11.

Nomenclature references (2)

  • Taylor Smith, B.L., Trewick, S.A. & Morgan-Richards, M. (2016) Three new ground weta species and a redescription of Hemiandrus maculifrons. New Zealand J. Zool., 43(4), 363–383. Available at http://www.massey.ac.nz/~strewick/PDFs/Taylor-Smith%20et%20al%202016%20H.%20maculifrons.pdf
  • 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:

From Luna, the Roman goddess of the moon, in reference to the nocturnal habit of Hemiandrus species.

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