Female and male mountain stone weta at Korowai / Torlesse Tussocklands Park
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Orthoptera
Suborder:
Ensifera
Family:
Anostostomatidae
Genus:
Hemideina
Species:
H. maori
Binomial name
Hemideina maori
(Pictet & Saussure, 1891)
Hemideina 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 Zealand. Mountain stone wētā are long lived and are found on many central mountain ranges in New Zealand's South Island.
Hemideinamaori, also known as the mountain stone wētā, is a wētā of the family Anostostomatidae. They are a large, flightless, nocturnal orthopteran...
zoologist Adam White in 1842. William Colenso described the species as Hemideina gigantea in 1882; a name which was later brought into synonymy with D...
Hemideina femorata, the Canterbury tree weta or in Māori, putangatanga, is a flightless nocturnal insect from the order Orthoptera and the genus Hemideina...
isabella; the flightless midge, Belgica antarctica; the alpine tree weta, Hemideinamaori; and the alpine cockroach, Celatoblatta quinquemaculata. Freeze tolerance...
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Africa, South America and New Caledonia. In New Zealand are the tree weta (Hemideina White, 1846), the giant weta (Deinacrida White, 1846), and the tusked...
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