So, there is a genus of very large diplurans called Heterojapyx. When I first saw pictures of them on inat I was immediately captivated by them. I thus decided to look into them more. But I did no know the rabbit hole I would eventually put myself in. First is that the most observed and seemingly l…

[image] insectilluminatigetshrekt: In the comments, the user @szucsich mentions a paper it wasn’t a paper, but rather a physical poster presented at that 2013 conference

Hmm, my mistake. It seems there is no version viewable online, unfortunately

How is New Zealand correctly spelt in a scientific name ? I suspect the double E and ea is a typo from English ?

Hello, This is why we should cite species names at least with author and year, and in taxonomic treatments also with a page number. Theoretically Verhoeff could have described two species with very similar names in the same year or the same paper. [grafik] This is a screenshot from the “Cooperat…

[image] insectilluminatigetshrekt: Heterojapyx novaezeelandiae If of interest, link to the paper @ http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12640927 (taken from https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Heterojapyx_novaezeelandiae ). I can only see one species in it:)

I assume the author can choose their spelling. Zeelandia is of course the Latin name of Zeeland.

Really the main question of my op, which I perhaps should have said better, is why is there such a discrepancy between different databases in what constitutes Heterojapyx

Oh I mean, this is more likely to be on my reading comprehension than on you:p Just to wrap up on novaezeelandiae / novaezealandiae - Verhoeff ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Wilhelm_Verhoeff ) wrote in German, and in German New Zealand is spelled as Neuseeland. So the double e is probably more …

Oh dear! What have you done to my lunch break! So if you look up th genus page on Wikipedia, interestingly it only includes the ee spelling [image] I haven’t been able to track down the original description, but here is Verhoeff’s own 1904 (next year) paper where he creates the genus Heterojapy…

The wikipedia includes yet an additional species not featured anywhere else, Heterojapyx dux. Very interesting.

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