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Macropathus filifer
Macropathus filifer is a species of jumping wētā found in caves of the northwest South Island of New Zealand.
From the article Macropathus filifer on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Range & habitat
Aola Richards found specimens of M. filifer from around Wellington and islands in the Marlborough Sounds. Other researchers have recorded the species from Golden Bay in Tasman, while records from the citizen science platform iNaturalist show the species extending through the Tasman and West Coast regions as far south as Aoraki.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 391967.