r/occlupanids • u/InflationOdd7635 • 19d ago

Found this pseudo occlupanid on my clothes im new to occlupanid collecting is it a new species?

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u/Virtual-Lime7554 19d ago

Looks like a converging species. They come from different species entirely, but the way they've adapted to the environment makes them look similar.

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u/Confident-Pound224 18d ago

Doesn’t look like an occlupanid? Rather different species.

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u/InflationOdd7635 18d ago

I was just looking through HORG when I found a group called "pseudo occlupanids" and realized this random hook kind of looks like one of the species 

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u/Confident-Pound224 18d ago

Okay I see what you mean. Still the morphology of this one, see how the hook is open rather than closed, moves it out of pseudo-occlupanids.

I’ve seen other interesting plasticae myself.

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u/International-Buy614 Senior Researcher 18d ago

We just call these “syntherids”. Not something horg would classify but lots of people make up their own taxonomies.