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species Motuweta isolata Johns, 1997

• Common name(s):  Mercury Islands tusked weta
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• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (9):
  • McIntyre. 1991. Australian Nat. Hist. 23(602)
  • Johns, Peter M. 1997. Jour. Orth. Res. 6:130, 137   >> Motuweta isolata    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:19919
  • Gibbs. 2001. In Field, L.H. [Ed.]. The Biology of Wetas, King Crickets and their Allies 49   >> Motuweta isolata
  • McIntyre. 2001. The Biology of Wetas, King Crickets and their Allies 225-242 >> Motuweta isolata
  • Trewick & Morgan-Richards. 2004. Jour. Orth. Res. 13(2):186   >> Motuweta isolata
  • Stringer. 2006. DOC Res. & Dev. Series 258:1-27   >> Motuweta isolata
  • Watts, Stringer, Sherley, Gibbs & C. Green. 2008. J. Insect Conservation 12(3-4):359-370   >> Motuweta isolata
  • Trewick, S.J. Morris, Peter M. Johns, Hitchmough & Stringer. 2012. New Zealand Ent. 35(2):131–136   >> Note: status: recovering >> Motuweta isolata
  • Stringer, Watts, Thornburrow, R. Chappell & Robbie Price. 2014. J. Insect Conservation 18(2):203-214   >> Motuweta isolata
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Australasia, New Zealand, Milddle Island, Mercury Island Group
  • Kind of type:  holotype
  • Specimen category:  male
  • Location of type:  MONZ Wellington

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