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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 DQHZVSHFLHVRIUREEHUÀ \QDPHG after him - Millenarius woodi. The... More

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 DQHZVSHFLHVRIUREEHUÀ \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 'U-DVRQ/RQGW:LNLSHGLDGH¿ QHVD 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 HYHU GLVFRYHUHG ZLOO EH LGHQWL¿ HG 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 ZURQJZLWKUREEHUÀ LHV´ He added later, “With reference to the expert, Jason Londt: T Less