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Issue: Vol. 5637 No. 2: 21 May 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-05-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5637.2.9
Page range: 363-373
Abstract views: 55
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A new landhopper, Manawataawhiorchestia uruone gen. nov., sp. nov. (Amphipoda: Talitroidea: Talitridae) from Manawatāwhi/Three Kings Islands, New Zealand

School of Biological; Earth and Environmental Sciences; University College Cork; Cork Enterprise Centre; Distillery Fields; North Mall; Cork; Ireland
Wildland Consultants Ltd.; Rotorua P.O. Box 7137; New Zealand; Department of Applied and Environmental Sciences; NorthTec; Private Bag 9019; Whangarei; New Zealand
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; PO Box 467; Wellington; New Zealand
Crustacea taxonomy terrestrial Crustaceanew genus new species island endemic

Abstract

A new genus and species of landhopper in the family Talitridae, Manawataawhiorchestia uruone gen. nov., sp. nov., is here described from the Three Kings Islands, New Zealand. Until recently, all native landhoppers in New Zealand had been attributed to the family Makawidae. Following the transferral of Dallwitzia simularis (Hurley, 1957) to the Talitridae Manawataawhiorchestia uruone gen. nov., sp. nov. becomes the second species of talitrid landhopper identified from New Zealand. All other New Zealand species in the family Talitridae have been classified as beachhoppers and sandhoppers.

 

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How to Cite

Myers, A.A., Ball, O.J.-P. & Shepherd, L.D. (2025) A new landhopper, Manawataawhiorchestia uruone gen. nov., sp. nov. (Amphipoda: Talitroidea: Talitridae) from Manawatāwhi/Three Kings Islands, New Zealand. Zootaxa, 5637 (2), 363–373. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5637.2.9