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Namaquamyia

Namaquamyia is a genus of wormlion in the family Vermileonidae, containing a single species from Namaqualand, Namaquamyia manselli. The genus was first described by Brian Roy Stuckenberg in 2000, who originally named it Namamyia (after the Nama people); this name was preoccupied by the caddisfly genus Namamyia Banks, 1905, so in 2002 Stuckenberg renamed the genus Namaqualandia (after Namaqualand).

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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 645324.