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Balrog's Cave Cricket
Dolichopoda balrogi
Dolichopoda balrogi is a species of cave cricket identified in a tunnel in the Greek island of Kastellorizo in 2026. It was formally described as species of the genus Dolichopoda by Greek researchers in a paper published by the Journal of Orthoptera Research based on morphological data and DNA Barcoding.
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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 1685108.