Orthoptera Species File (Version 5.0/5.0)        Home       Search       Taxa       Key       Help       Wiki

Taxa hierarchy  

genus Deinacrida White, 1842

• Common name(s):  giant weta
• Distribution:
  •  
   
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (24):
  • White, A. 1842. Gray's Zool. Misc. 78 >> Deinacrida    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:19773
  • Graber. 1874. Mitt. naturwiss. Ver. Steiermark 11:33-38   >> Note: stridulatory organ >> Deinacrida
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1888. Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien 38:267   >> Deinacrida
  • Tepper. 1892. Trans. R. Soc. S. Australia 15:172   >> Deinacrida
  • Hutton. 1896. Trans. N. Zeal. Inst. 29:211   >> Deinacrida
  • Alfken. 1904. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abt. Syst. Geogr. und Biol. der Tiere 19:561   >> Deinacrida
  • Kirby, W.F. 1906. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 2:114   >> Deinacrida
  • Karny. 1930. Archiv. klassif. u. phylogen. Ent. 1(2):57-76 >> Deinacrida
  • Karny. 1930. Proc. 4th Pacific Sci. Congr. 1929 3:157-172 >> Deinacrida
  • Karny. 1937. Genera Insectorum 206:221   >> Deinacrida
  • Salmon. 1950. Domin. Mus. Rec. Entomol. 1:121-177 >> Note: key to species >> Deinacrida
  • Ramsay. 1961. Proc. R. Ent. Soc. London (B) 30:86 >> Deinacrida
  • Richards, A.M. 1973. New Zealand J. Zool. 169:195-236 >> Note: Henicidae >> Deinacrida
  • Field, L.H. 1978. J. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 8(4):359-375   >> Deinacrida
  • Ramsay. 1979. Annotated bibliography and index to the New Zealand wetas 1-56 >> Deinacrida
  • Passerin d'Entrèves. 1981. Cataloghi. IV - Collezioni Ortotterologiche del Museo di Zoologia dell'Università di Torino 73 >> Deniacrida subsequent misspelling    urn:lsid:Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:512624
  • Meads. 1990. The Weta Book: A Guide to the Identification of Wetas 12 >> Deinacrida
  • Gorochov. 1995. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 260:199 >> Deinacrida
  • Johns, Peter M. 1997. Jour. Orth. Res. 6:134   >> Deinacrida
  • Gibbs. 1999. J. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 29(4):308, 321   >> Note: key to species >> Deinacrida
  • Otte, D. 2000. Orthoptera Species File 8:50 >> Deinacrida
  • Gibbs. 2001. In Field, L.H. [Ed.]. The Biology of Wetas, King Crickets and their Allies 35-55   >> Deinacrida
  • Morgan-Richards & Gibbs. 2001. Invertebr. Taxon. 15 (1):1-12 >> Deinacrida
  • Trewick & Morgan-Richards. 2004. Jour. Orth. Res. 13(2):185-196   >> Deinacrida
• Type species:  Deinacrida heteracantha White, A.
• The first family-group name based on this genus is Deinacridinae Karny, 1932.

• synonym Deinacridopsis Ander, 1939
• synonym Deniacrida Passerin d'Entrèves, 1981
• species carinata Salmon, 1950
• species connectens (Ander, 1939)
• species elegans Gibbs, 1999
• species fallai Salmon, 1950
• species heteracantha White, 1842
• synonym gigantea (Colenso, 1881)
• species mahoenui Gibbs, 1999
• species parva Buller, 1894
• species pluvialis Gibbs, 1999
• species rugosa Buller, 1871
• species sonitospina Salmon, 1950
• species talpa Gibbs, 1999
• species tibiospina Salmon, 1950

	Home       Search       Taxa       Key       Help       Wiki      |      Top of page
Copyright © 2025.  Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.