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District Conservator, Alex
Wood, will be remembered
by science, and especially by
entomologists, for ever. He has had
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after him - Millenarius woodi.
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March 2014
Agri(&2
1RUWKHUQ.ZD=XOX1DWDO
Vryheid
R
etired EKZN Wildlife
District Conservator, Alex
Wood, will be remembered
by science, and especially by
entomologists, for ever. He has had
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\QDPHG
after him - Millenarius woodi.
The holotype of this previously
unknown species was collected in
the open grassland on the Vryheid
Hill Nature Reserve, and named, by
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holotype as: “A holotype is a single
physical example of an organism,
known to have been used when the
species was formally described. It
is either the single such physical
example or one of several such,
but explicitly designated as the
holotype.”
Every other Millenarius woodi
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based on a comparison to this
specimen. Said Alex Wood in
an e-mail in June, “If you had
given me a few million guesses, I
wouldn’t have got this one right!
...and there’s absolutely nothing
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He added later, “With reference
to the expert, Jason Londt: T
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