New species of velvet worm named after third year student (IMAGE)

Stellenbosch University

New species of velvet worm named after third year student

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A new velvet worm species, Peripatopsis barnardi, is named after Rohan Barnard, currently a third year BSc student in Conservation Ecology and Entomology at Stellenbosch University. He found a specimen while looking for insects in an ancient forest patch in a kloof in the Swartberg Mountains.

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