Kurisuphenax secondus

“Second Kurisu-deceiver”
Kingdom
Microsynthera
Phylum
Plasticae
Class
Occlupanida
Order
Orthogonidectes
Family
Archignathidae
Genus
Kurisuphenax
Species
K. secondus
External morphology

Finely textured integument. Size 26 mm x 23.5 mm

During a survey of the  Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market in Hong Kong in pursuit of Kurisuphenax edentulus, occlupanologist Kurisu discovered a second species, with angled distal coxae. No amicula present.  It otherwise shares many of the same features as K. edentulus; rounded oral hooks with almost no inward curve, a textured and flexible integument, and is ever-so-slightly closer a mimic of Infirmamaxilla kurisu, the eponymous archignathan first discovered attached to large wrapping-paper around grapes in this very same locale. Does K. secondus benefit from being a closer mimic to I. kurisu?  The mendacious qualities of this occlupanid genus must be taken into account when collecting in the field; K. secondus are known to persuade their human hosts to prevaricate on the purchase price. Exercise caution!