{"id":3838,"date":"2025-05-04T05:56:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T05:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/?page_id=3838"},"modified":"2025-05-04T07:04:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T07:04:58","slug":"kurisuphenax-secondus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/?page_id=3838","title":{"rendered":"Kurisuphenax secondus"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"border: none;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border: none;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/?page_id=129\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/region_asian.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"41\" height=\"41\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: none;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/?page_id=64\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ecol-shopping-cart.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"37\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"border: none;\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/?page_id=177\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60\" title=\"taxon_archi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/taxon_archi.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"38\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h1>Kurisuphenax secondus<\/h1>\n<div class=\"card-content\">\n<div class=\"sciname\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ar_ku_sec.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3833\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ar_ku_sec.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ar_ku_sec.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/ar_ku_sec-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\u201cSecond Kurisu-deceiver\u201d<\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Kingdom<\/dt>\n<dd>Microsynthera<\/dd>\n<dt>Phylum<\/dt>\n<dd>Plasticae<\/dd>\n<dt>Class<\/dt>\n<dd>Occlupanida<\/dd>\n<dt>Order<\/dt>\n<dd>Orthogonidectes<\/dd>\n<dt>Family<\/dt>\n<dd>Archignathidae<\/dd>\n<dt>Genus<\/dt>\n<dd><em>Kurisuphenax<\/em><\/dd>\n<dt>Species<\/dt>\n<dd><em>K. secondus<\/em><\/dd>\n<dt>External morphology<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>Finely textured integument. Size 26 mm x 23.5 mm<\/p>\n<div class=\"description\">\n<p>During a survey of the\u00a0 Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market in Hong Kong in pursuit of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/?page_id=3832\"><em>Kurisuphenax edentulus<\/em><\/a>, occlupanologist Kurisu discovered a second species, with angled distal coxae. No <em>amicula<\/em> present.\u00a0 It otherwise shares many of the same features as<em> K. edentulus<\/em>; rounded oral hooks with almost no inward curve, a textured and flexible integument, and is ever-so-slightly closer a mimic of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/?page_id=2777\"><em>Infirmamaxilla kurisu<\/em><\/a>, the eponymous archignathan first discovered attached to large wrapping-paper around grapes in this very same locale. Does <em>K. secondus<\/em> benefit from being a closer mimic to <em>I. kurisu<\/em>?\u00a0 The mendacious qualities of this occlupanid genus must be taken into account when collecting in the field; <em>K. secondu<\/em>s are known to persuade their human hosts to prevaricate on the purchase price. Exercise caution!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurisuphenax secondus \u201cSecond Kurisu-deceiver\u201d 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\u00a0 Yau Ma Tei Fruit Market in Hong Kong in pursuit of Kurisuphenax edentulus, occlupanologist Kurisu discovered a second species, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3833,"parent":23,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3838","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3838"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3849,"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3838\/revisions\/3849"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}