Deinacrida tibiospina Salmon, 1950
Mount Arthur giant weta
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1950
Rediscovered in 1984
Distribution & Habitat
New Zealand
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Salmon, J. T. (1950). A revision of the New Zealand wetas Anostostominae (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae). Dominion Museum Records in Entomology 1: 121-177.
Other references:
Gibbs, G. W. (1999). Four new species of giant weta, Deinacrida (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae: Deinacridinae) from New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 29(4): 307-324.
McGuinness, Carl A. (2001). The conservation requirements of New Zealand’s nationally threatened invertebrates. Threatened Species Occasional Publication 20. Wellington, NZ: Department of Conservation, Biodiversity Recovery Unit.
Meads, M. J. (1989). The conservation status of the giant weta (Deinacrida tibiospina) in Northwest Nelson. D.S.I.R. Ecology Division Report no. 21. D.S.I.R. Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
Molloy, Janice and Davis, Alison. (1994). Setting priorities for the conservation of New Zealand’s threatened plants and animals, 2nd edn. (comp. A. Tisdall). Department of Conservation, Wellington. 64 pp.
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.
http://orthoptera.speciesfile.org/Common/basic/Taxa.aspx?TaxonNameID=1132040