Tree weta
| Tree weta | |
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| Male Wellington tree weta Hemideina crassidens | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Ensifera |
| Family: | Anostostomatidae |
| Genus: | Hemideina |
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Tree weta are species of weta in the genus Hemideina of the family Anostostomatidae. They are endemic to New Zealand.
Species
- Hemideina broughi (Buller, 1896) West Coast bush weta - overlaps with the Wellington tree weta on the West Coast.
- Hemideina crassidens (Blanchard, 1851) Wellington tree weta - Wellington, the Wairarapa, the northern parts of South Island, and the West Coast.
- Hemideina femorata Hutton, 1898 Canterbury tree weta - Canterbury.
- Hemideina maori (Pictet & Saussure, 1891) Mountain stone weta - the drier areas of the central South Island High Country. It abandoned life in trees millions of years ago in favour of crevices and cavities under rocks.
- Hemideina ricta Hutton, 1898 Banks Peninsula tree weta - Banks Peninsula.
- Hemideina thoracica (White, 1842) Auckland tree weta or tokoriro - found throughout the North Island apart from the Wellington-Wairarapa region.
- Hemideina trewicki Morgan-Richards, 1995[1] Hawke's Bay tree weta - Hawke's Bay.
References
- ↑ Morgan-Richards, M. 1995. A new species of tree weta in the North Island of New Zealand (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae: Hemideina) New Zealand Entomologist, 18: 15-23
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