{"id":4000,"date":"2025-09-27T05:47:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T05:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/?page_id=4000"},"modified":"2026-01-02T04:57:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T04:57:05","slug":"asconomeus-tokiyasdiensis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/?page_id=4000","title":{"rendered":"Asconomeus tokiyasdiensis"},"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_nearctic.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> <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-picnic-table.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\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/taxon_toxo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"38\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h1>Asconomeus tokiyasdiensis<\/h1>\n<div class=\"card-content\">\n<div class=\"sciname\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/to_asco_tok.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4002\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/to_asco_tok.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/to_asco_tok.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/to_asco_tok-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;bag-shepherd from Tokiyasdi&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/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>Toxodentidae<\/dd>\n<dt>Genus<\/dt>\n<dd><em>Asconomeus<\/em><\/dd>\n<dt>Species<\/dt>\n<dd><em>A. tokiyasdiensis<\/em><\/dd>\n<dt>External morphology<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>small rounded isoform lateral palps. Size 33.3 mm x 23.8mm<\/p>\n<div class=\"description\">\n<p>This hyaline toxodentid is a hyperparasite similar in habits to <em>A. bubulajuvator<\/em>, as it was found clutched firmly onto a large bag that itself held two smaller bags, each containing Thomas&#8217; English Muffins.\u00a0 It was discovered at a Sam&#8217;s Club by in North Carolina by P. Aurora of the Society for Occlupanid Research in Enka-Candler and Asheville (SORECA), using data provided by occlupanologist-scholar A. Welby, who theorized its existence. The species name comes from the original Cherokee word for the region where Asheville, NC is today. Despite its attraction to warehouse-sized grocery biomes, <em>A. tokiyasdiensis<\/em> may have a larger range, as it was simultaneously discovered by by field researcher A. Carrara on the grounds of a summer camp in Massachusetts. Species described by P. Aurora.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asconomeus tokiyasdiensis &#8220;bag-shepherd from Tokiyasdi&#8221; Kingdom Microsynthera Phylum Plasticae Class Occlupanida Order Orthogonidectes Family Toxodentidae Genus Asconomeus Species A. tokiyasdiensis External morphology small rounded isoform lateral palps. Size 33.3 mm x 23.8mm This hyaline toxodentid is a hyperparasite similar in habits to A. bubulajuvator, as it was found clutched firmly onto a large bag that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4002,"parent":749,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4000","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\/4000","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=4000"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4076,"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4000\/revisions\/4076"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horg.com\/horg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}