Deinacrida

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Stenopelmatoidea
Main Page Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Cladus: Pterygota Cladus: Metapterygota Cladus: Neoptera Supercohort: Polyneoptera Cohort: Anartioptera Magnordo: Polyorthoptera Superordo: Orthopterida Grandordo: Panorthoptera Mirordo: incertae sedis Ordo: Orthoptera Subordo: Ensifera Superfamilia: Stenopelmatoidea

Familia: Anostostomatidae
Subfamilia: Deinacridinae
Genus: Deinacrida
Synonyms (1): Deinacridopsis
Species (11): D. carinata – D. connectens – D. elegans – D. fallai – D. heteracantha – D. mahoenui – D. parva – D. pluvialis – D. rugosa – D. talpa – D. tibiospina

In synonymy (2): D. gigantea – D. sonitospina

Name

• Deinacrida White, 1842
  • Type species: Deinacrida heteracantha White, 1842
    • Fixation: monotypy
  • NOTE: combined genus/species description, only species marked as new

Primary references

• White, A. 1842: Description of an orthopterous insect, and two new species of Crustacea, from New Zealand: in the collection of the British Museum. Pp. 78-79 in: Gray, J.E. The Zoological Miscellany, Part V. London, Treuttel Wurtz, Sowerby, Wood. Google books [first availability, see p. 78]

Selected 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. doi: 10.1080/03014223.1999.9517600 reference page 
• Johns, P.M. 1997: The Gondwanaland weta: family Anostostomatidae (formerly in Stenopelmatidae, Henicidae or Mimnermidae): nomenclatural problems, world checklist, new genera and species. Journal of Orthoptera research, (6): 125-138. JSTOR reference page 
• Trewick, S.A.; Morgan-Richards, M. 2004: Phylogenetics of New Zealand's tree, giant and tusked weta (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae): evidence from mitochondrial DNA. Journal of Orthoptera research, 13(2): 185-196. JSTOR
• Trewick, S.A.; Wallis, G.P. 2001: Bridging the "beech-gap": New Zealand invertebrate phylogeography implicates Pleistocene glaciation and Pliocene isolation. Evolution, 55(11): 2170-2180. doi: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2001.tb00733.x

Vernacular names

English: giant weta

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