Deinacrida fallai

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
Species: Deinacrida fallai

Name

• Deinacrida fallai Salmon, 1950
  • Authority for current placement: original
    • undisputed by all subsequent authorities
  • Original genus: Deinacrida
  • Original status: valid species
  • Primary type: holotype
    • Fixation: designated, as 'type'
    • Description: [adult] female
    • Repository: MONZ, as 'Dominion Museum'
  • Type locality: 'Poor Knights Islands' [p. 134]

References

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

• 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. [publication date: 'NOV. 1997', sourced from first page of article] JSTOR ZooBank
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• Richards, A.M. 1973: A comparative study of the biology of the giant wetas Deinacrida heteracantha and D. fallai (Orthoptera: Henicidae) from New Zealand. Journal of zoology, 169(2): 195-236. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1973.tb04554.x
• Salmon, J.T. 1950: Revision of the New Zealand wetas - Anostostominae (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae). Dominion Museum records in entomology, 1: 121-177. BUGZ
• 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
• Watt, J.C. 1982: Terrestrial arthropods from the Poor Knights Islands, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 12(3): 283-320. BUGZ Google books [p. 293]

additional references

• Macfarlane, R.P.; Maddison, P.A.; Andrew, I.G.; Berry, J.A.; Johns, P.M.; Hoare, R.J.B.; Larivière, M.-C.; Greenslade, P.; Henderson, R.C.; Smithers, C.N.; Palma, R.L.; Ward, J.B.; Pilgrim, R.L.C.; Towns, D.R.; McLellan, I.; Teulon, D.A.J.; Hitchings, T.R.; Eastop, V.F.; Martin, N.A.; Fletcher, M.J.; Stufkens, M.A.W.; Dale, P.J.; Burckhardt, D.; Buckley, T.R.; Trewick, S.A. 2010: Phylum Arthropoda subphylum Hexapoda: Protura, springtails, Diplura, and insects. Pp. 233-467 in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) 2010: New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 2. Kingdom Animalia. Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-87725793-3 PDF [400, listed]
• Wise, K.A.J. 1977: A synonymic checklist of the Hexapoda of the New Zealand sub-region: the smaller orders. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum, (11)