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species Deinacrida heteracantha White, 1842

• Common name(s):  Little Barrier Giant Weta; Wetapunga
• Links:
  • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (28):
  • White, A. 1842. Gray's Zool. Misc. 78 >> Deinacrida heteracantha    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:19784
  • Dieffenbach. 1843. Travels in New Zealand 280   >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • White, A. 1846. Voy. Erebus and Terror 2:24 >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • Buller. 1867. Zoologist 2(2):849   >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • Buller. 1871. Trans. N. Zeal. Inst. 3:35   >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • Colenso. 1886. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 19:145   >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1888. Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien 38:269   >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • Tepper. 1892. Trans. R. Soc. S. Australia 15:172   >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • Buller. 1894. Trans. N. Zeal. Inst. 27:143   >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • Hutton. 1896. Trans. N. Zeal. Inst. 29:212   >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • Kirby, W.F. 1906. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 2:114   >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • Karny. 1928. Ann. hist.-nat. Mus. Nat. Hung. 25:258   >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • Karny. 1928. Stett. Entomol. Z. 89:306   >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • Karny. 1930. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 44:150   >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • Karny. 1935. Eos 10(3-4):373   >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • Karny. 1937. Genera Insectorum 206:222   >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • Watt. 1963. New Zealand Ent. 3:11   >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • Richards, A.M. 1973. New Zealand J. Zool. 169:195-236 >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • Field, L.H. 1982. Int. J. Ins. Morphol. Embryol. 11(1):39-51 >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • Moffett. 1991. Nat. Geogr. 180(5):100-105 >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • Johns, Peter M. 1997. Jour. Orth. Res. 6:134   >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • Gibbs. 1998. J. Insect Conservation 2(3-4):161-166   >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • Hoekstra. 1998. J. Insect Conservation 2(3-4):180 >> Note: 1996 Red List of Threatened Animals (IUCN, 1996): vulnerable >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • Gibbs. 2001. In Field, L.H. [Ed.]. The Biology of Wetas, King Crickets and their Allies 41   >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • McIntyre. 2001. The Biology of Wetas, King Crickets and their Allies 225-242 >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • Trewick & Morgan-Richards. 2004. Jour. Orth. Res. 13(2):185   >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • Watts & Thornburrow. 2011. Jour. Orth. Res. 20(1):127-135   >> Deinacrida heteracantha
  • Watts, Thornburrow, Rohan & Stringer [Ed.]. 2013. Jour. Orth. Res. 22(2):93-100   >> Deinacrida heteracantha
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Australasia, New Zealand, New Zealand North I
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Location of type:  BMNH London NH Mus.

• synonym gigantea (Colenso, 1881)

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