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High alpine sorcerers: revision of the cave wētā genus Pharmacus Pictet & de Saussure (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: Macropathinae), with the description of six new species and three new subspecies
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Hegg, Danilo, Morgan-Richards, Mary, Trewick, Steven A. (2022): High alpine sorcerers: revision of the cave wētā genus Pharmacus Pictet & de Saussure (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: Macropathinae), with the description of six new species and three new subspecies. European Journal of Taxonomy 808 (1): 1-58, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.808.1721, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.808.1721
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