Deinacrida parva Buller, 1894:147
Kaikoura weta
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Hemideina parva Buller, 1894
Conservation Status
Last record: before 1894
Rediscovered in 1966?
IUCN RedList status: Data Deficient
Distribution
Nelson, South Island, New Zealand
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Buller, Walter L. (1894). On the Wetas, a Group of Orthopterous Insects inhabiting New Zealand; with Descriptions of Two New Species. Trans. N. Zeal. Inst. 27: 143-147
Other references:
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Meads, M. J. (1989). An evaluation of the conservation status of the giant weta ([i]Deinacrida parva[/i]) at Kaikoura. D.S.I.R. Ecology Division Report no. 20. D.S.I.R. Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
Meads, M. J. and Notman, P. (1992). Survey of the status of three species of giant wetas (Deinacrida) on the Seaward and Inland Kaikoura ranges. D.S.I.R. Land Resources Technical Record 89. D.S.I.R. Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
Ramsay, G. W. (1971). Rediscovery of Sir Walter Buller's weta, Deinacrida parva (Orthoptera: Gryllacridoidea: Henicidae). New Zealand Entomologist 5(1): 52-53. [First page preview]
Trewick, S., Hegg, D., Morgan-Richards, M., Murray, T., Watts, C., Johns, P. and Michel, P. (2022). Conservation status of Orthoptera (wētā, crickets and grasshoppers) in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2022. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 39. Department of Conservation, Wellington. 28 pp.
Trewick, Steve, Johns, Peter, Hitchmough, Rod, Rolfe, Jeremy and Stringer, Ian. (2016). Conservation status of New Zealand Orthoptera, 2014. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 16. Department of Conservation, Wellington. 15 pp.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1996). Deinacrida parva. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T6308A12602589. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T6308A12602589.en. Downloaded on 17 January 2016.