Anostostomatidae is a family of insects in the order Orthoptera, widely distributed in the southern hemisphere. It is named Mimnermidae or Henicidae in...
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common name for a group of about 100 insect species in the families Anostostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae endemic to New Zealand. They are giant flightless...
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Giant wētā (category Anostostomatidae)
are several species of wētā in the genus Deinacrida of the family Anostostomatidae. Giant wētā are endemic to New Zealand and all but one species are...
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Parktown prawn (category Anostostomatidae)
king crickets are not true crickets either: they belong to the family Anostostomatidae, whereas true crickets are in the Gryllidae. The insect gets its English...
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70 species of insects endemic to New Zealand, mostly in the family Anostostomatidae. Weta, Wetas, wētā or WETA may also refer to: Weta, Ghana, a village...
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comprises several well-separated lineages, at least three of which (Anostostomatidae, Gryllacrididae, and Stenopelmatidae) can be reasonably well-defined...
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Deinacrida heteracantha (category Anostostomatidae)
wētāpunga (Māori: wētāpunga), is a wētā in the order Orthoptera and family Anostostomatidae. It is endemic to New Zealand, where it survived only on Little Barrier...
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female has a rudimentary ovipositor, unlike true Gryllacrididae or Anostostomatidae species. It is similar to Jerusalem crickets, but it is the only species...
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superfamily Gryllacridoidea was found to include Stenopelmatidae, Anostostomatidae, Gryllacrididae and Lezina. Schizodactylidae and Grylloidea were shown...
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Schizodactylidae (dune crickets or splay-footed crickets) Stenopelmatoidea Anostostomatidae (wetas, king crickets) Cooloolidae (Cooloola monster and relatives)...
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Deinacrida rugosa (category Anostostomatidae)
weta or Stephens Island weta, is a species of insect in the family Anostostomatidae. The scientific name Deinacrida means "terrible grasshopper" and rugosa...
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Tree wētā (category Anostostomatidae)
Tree wētā are wētā in the genus Hemideina of the family Anostostomatidae. The genus is endemic to New Zealand. There are seven species within the genus...
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Hemideina thoracica (category Anostostomatidae)
tree wētā or tokoriro is a cricket-like insect (within the family Anostostomatidae). It is endemic to New Zealand and is found over most of the North...
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genus Lezina of the subfamily Lezininae is now placed in the family Anostostomatidae. Desutter-Grandcolas, L. (2003). "Phylogeny and the evolution of acoustic...
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Deinacrida talpa (category Anostostomatidae)
Deinacrida talpa, the giant mole weta, is a species of insect in the family Anostostomatidae. It is endemic to New Zealand. Although the species is similar to closely...
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Deinacrida carinata (category Anostostomatidae)
that belong to the genus Deinacrida, and is a member of the family Anostostomatidae. It is endemic to New Zealand and is currently restricted to a few...
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2021). "A new species of large Hemiandrus ground wētā (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae) from North Island, New Zealand". Zootaxa. 4942 (2): 207–218. doi:10...
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Schizodactylidae (dune crickets or splay-footed crickets) Stenopelmatoidea Anostostomatidae (wetas, king crickets) Cooloolidae (Cooloola monster and relatives)...
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Hemiandrus brucei (category Anostostomatidae)
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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Deinacrida fallai (category Anostostomatidae)
or the Poor Knights giant wētā is a species of insect in the family Anostostomatidae. It is endemic to the Poor Knights Islands off northern New Zealand...
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Hemideina crassidens (category Anostostomatidae)
tree wētā, is a large, flightless, nocturnal insect in the family Anostostomatidae. This wētā species is endemic to New Zealand and populates regions...
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of Five Hybrid Zones of the Weta Hemideina Thoracica (orthoptera: Anostostomatidae): Degree of Cytogenetic Differentiation Fails to Predict Zone Width"...
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sensilla in acoustic stridulation by New Zealand giant wetas (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae)". Arthropod Structure & Development. 31 (4): 287–296. doi:10...
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Hemideina maori (category Anostostomatidae)
maori, also known as the mountain stone wētā, is a wētā of the family Anostostomatidae. They are a large, flightless, nocturnal orthopteran endemic to New...
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Deinacrida connectens (category Anostostomatidae)
New Zealand's largest alpine invertebrates and is a member of the Anostostomatidae family. Deinacrida connectens is a flightless nocturnal insect that...
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Anostostoma (category Anostostomatidae)
Anostostoma is the type genus of the family Anostostomatidae and consists of five species of insect, endemic to Australia. Anostostoma australasiae Gray...
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"Gryllacrididae, Stenopelmatidae, Cooloolidae, Schizodactylidae, Anostostomatidae, and Rhaphidophoridae". Orthoptera Species File 8, 97. Arnett, Ross...
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Hemiandrus bilobatus (category Anostostomatidae)
1790396. ISSN 0301-4223. Johns PM 1997. The Gondwanaland weta: Family Anostostomatidae (formerly in Stenopelmatidae, Henicidae or Minermidae): nomenclatural...
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"Gryllacrididae, Stenopelmatidae, Cooloolidae, Schizodactylidae, Anostostomatidae, and Rhaphidophoridae". Orthoptera Species File 8, 97. Ross H. Arnett...
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Hemiandrus celaeno (category Anostostomatidae)
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 the...
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