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    distribution is under debate. Hemiandrus is however the most species rich genus of the New Zealand Anostostomatidae. The genus Hemiandrus include the smallest...
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    therefore synonymous with both Libanasa pallitarsis Walker and Hemiandrus furcifer Ander. Hemiandrus pallitarsis is endemic to the North Island of New Zealand...
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    or captured but other Hemiandrus species are known to be predatory so the Tekapo ground wētā is likely to be as well. Hemiandrus 'furoviarius' is a small...
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    with harem formation and male-male competition for mates. Ground wētā (Hemiandrus spp.) males provide nuptial food gifts when mating and females of some...
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    females. Hemiandrus bilobatus includes populations of ground weta found in the Awatere Valley in Marlborough previously referred at as Hemiandrus "promontorius"...
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    colouring in adults. Hemiandrus jacinda is nocturnal and it is expected that individuals roost during the day in burrows as with other Hemiandrus ground wētā....
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    maternal care. Hemiandrus maia was first described in 2013, but had been referred to in previous publications by an informal (tag) name (Hemiandrus 'evansae')...
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    regarded as synonymous with Hemiandrus, as some ground wētā species have intermediate length ovipositers and Hemiandrus focalis has weakly developed...
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    care. Hemiandrus electra was first described in 2013, but had been referred to in previous publications by an informal (tag) name (Hemiandrus 'okiwi')...
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    Hemiandrus brucei is a species of ground wētā in the family Anostostomatidae endemic to New Zealand. They are nocturnal and found in forests in the North...
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    to lay their eggs in the soil. Unlike some Hemiandrus species, H. nox does not show maternal care. Hemiandrus nox was first described in 2016, but had been...
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    Zealandrosandrus was recognized as a synonym of Hemiandrus in 1997 so this species was moved to Hemiandrus. Hemiandrus subantarcticus is roughly 30mm in length...
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  • Hemiandrus sterope, the lightning wētā, is a species of Hemiandrus. It is a medium-sized ground wētā, and was discovered in the Marlborough Sounds alongside...
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    Hemiandrus maculifrons is a species of ground wētā (Hemiandrus Walker, 1869) endemic to New Zealand. They are nocturnal, carnivorous, and flightless orthopterans...
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    Hemiandrus celaeno is a species of endemic ground wētā in the family Anostostomatidae. H. celaeno is a small to medium-sized burrowing wētā found along...
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    Gryllotaurus, Transaevum), while most lack wings (e.g. Anostostoma, Hemiandrus, Hypocophoides, Penalva). Males of some species have highly modified heads...
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    by a different author, who placed it in the ground wētā genus Hemiandrus (as Hemiandrus monstrosus). Tusked wētā are distinctive because of the long curved...
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    individual to develop into a female. Cryptic species of ground wētā (Hemiandrus maculifrons complex) are host to different lineages of Wolbachia which...
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    Zealand zoologist Steven A. Trewick named the flightless wētā species Hemiandrus jacinda in honour of Ardern. A spokesperson for Ardern said that a beetle...
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    specimen of a new species of wētā, Zealandosandrus fiordensis (now called Hemiandrus fiordensis) was collected by Richard Dell on this expedition and described...
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  • University from 1937 to 1951. In 1938 Ander described the New Zealand genus Hemiandrus (Orthoptera; Anostostomatidae) and made considerable progress sorting...
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  • Retrieved 14 April 2021. Trewick SA (March 2021). "A new species of large Hemiandrus ground wētā (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae) from North Island, New Zealand"...
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  • H. monstrosus may refer to: Hemiandrus monstrosus, a synonym for Anisoura nicobarica, the Northland tusked weta, an insect species endemic to New Zealand...
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    Trewick, Steve A. (2013). "New Zealand ground wētā (Anostostomatidae: Hemiandrus): descriptions of two species with notes on their biology". New Zealand...
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  • Thumbnail for Mercury Islands tusked wētā
    centipedes, tuatara, lizards, and morepork. The island also has ground wētā (Hemiandrus) and a large population of burrow-nesting seabirds. M. isolata were growing...
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    also home to the Moehau stag beetle (Geodorcus sp.), the Moehau wētā (Hemiandrus sp.) and a population of approximately 500 brown kiwi. The Moehau Environment...
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