Global InformationPachyrhamma waitomoensis information
| Pachyrhamma waitomoensis | |
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| An adult male P. waitomoensis on a cave wall in Mangahopue cave, Waitomo | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Ensifera |
| Family: | Rhaphidophoridae |
| Genus: | Pachyrhamma |
| Species: | P. waitomoensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Pachyrhamma waitomoensis Richards, 1958
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Pachyrhamma waitomoensis, known as the Waitomo cave weta, is a large species of cave weta (New Zealand cave cricket, tokoriro),[1] native to the Waitomo district of New Zealand.[2]
This species was described by Aola Richards whose doctoral research investigated their life history.[3] Cook et al (2010) follow W.F. Kirby (1906) and Karny (1937) in treating Pachyrhamma as a neuter noun, and thus use a neuter suffix for the species name, i.e. waitomoense rather than waitomoensis.[4]
- ^ Richards, Aola (1959). "Revision of the Rhaphidophoridae (Orthoptera) of New Zealand Part VI" (PDF). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 87: 329–332 – via Royal Society of New Zealand.
- ^ Richards, Aola (1958). "Revision of the rhaphidophoridae (Orthoptera) of New Zealand. Part III - The genera pachyrhamma Brunner and pallidoplectron n.g." (PDF). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 85: 695–706.
- ^ Richards, A. M. (1956). The Systematics, Ecology and Life History of Two species pf Rhaphidophoridae (Orthoptera) in Waitomo Caves. PhD thesis, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
- ^ Cook, Lorraine D.; Trewick, Steven A.; Morgan-Richards, Mary; Johns, Peter M. (2010). "Status of the New Zealand cave weta (Rhaphidophoridae) genera Pachyrhamma, Gymnoplectron and Turbottoplectron". Invertebrate Systematics. 24 (2): 131. doi:10.1071/IS09047. ISSN 1445-5226.