''Pachyrhamma'' is a genus of cave weta (New Zealand cave cricket, ''tokoriro'') in the family Rhaphidophoridae, endemic to New Zealand. Cook et al. (2010) found that '' Gymnoplectron'' and '' Turbottoplectron'' are synonymised with ''Pachyrhamma''. They follow W.F. Kirby (1906) and

Karny Karny or Kárný is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Heinrich Hugo Karny (1886–1939), Austrian entomologist * Miroslav Kárný Miroslav Kárný (9 September 1919 – 9 May 2001) was a historian and writer from Prague, Czec ...

(1937) in treating ''Pachyrhamma'' as a neuter noun.

Ecology

Members of the genus are detritivorous scavengers that inhabit dark, damp refugia such as hollow logs, overhangs and caves during the day. They become more active at night and venture into the surrounding undergrowth to forage. They consume various organic matter such as plant seeds, fungi, animal droppings, and dead animal tissue. They will cannibalise the remains of other dead weta, and may also attack still-living cave weta while they are vulnerable during

ecdysis Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticle in many invertebrates of the clade Ecdysozoa. Since the cuticle of these animals typically forms a largely inelastic exoskeleton, it is shed during growth and a new, larger covering is formed. The remna ...

(shedding their exoskeleton).

Species

When ''Pachyrhamma'' is treated as a neuter noun, species names have a neuter suffix, e.g. ''-ceras'' rather than ''-cera'', and ''-ense'' rather than ''-ensis''. * '' Pachyrhamma acanthoceras'' (Milligan) – Auckland cave weta * '' Pachyrhamma chopardi'' Karny, 1935 * '' Pachyrhamma edwardsii'' (Scudder, 1869) * '' Pachyrhamma fascifer'' (Walker) * '' Pachyrhamma uncata'' Richards, A. M., 1959 * '' Pachyrhamma waitomoensis'' – Waitomo cave weta

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q7122210 Ensifera genera Cave weta