''Neodoxa'' is a genus of beetles belonging to the family
Staphylinidae
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.
The genus was described by Jan Klimaszewski, John Marris and
Stephen Ernest Thorpe
Stephen Ernest Thorpe (27 January 1970 – 24 August 2024) was an English-born entomologist in New Zealand. He contributed vast amounts of data and analysis in many contexts, particularly to iNaturalist. Thorpe was a member of the research grou ...
in 2003, and is found in
New Zealand
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,
Australia
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and
Tonga
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.
Taxonomy
The genus was first identified by Jan Klimaszewski, John Marris and
Stephen Ernest Thorpe
Stephen Ernest Thorpe (27 January 1970 – 24 August 2024) was an English-born entomologist in New Zealand. He contributed vast amounts of data and analysis in many contexts, particularly to iNaturalist. Thorpe was a member of the research grou ...
in 2003.
The type species of the genus is ''
Neodoxa secreta
''Neodoxa'' is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Staphylinidae. The genus was described by Jan Klimaszewski, John Marris and Stephen Ernest Thorpe in 2003, and is found in New Zealand, Australia and Tonga.
Taxonomy
The genus was first ...
''; a species described by
Malcolm Cameron in 1950 and originally placed in the genus ''Heterodoxa''.
The name is
Latin
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for "new opinion".
The genus was monotypic until 2008, when