Hemideina

Hemideina thoracica

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Stenopelmatoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Supercohort: Polyneoptera Ordo: Orthoptera Subordo: Ensifera Superfamilia: Stenopelmatoidea

Familia: Anostostomatidae
Subfamilia: Deinacridinae
Genus: Hemideina
Species (7): H. broughi – H. crassidens – H. femorata – H. maori – H. ricta – H. thoracica – H. trewicki

Name

• Hemideina Walker, 1869

Type species

• Hemideina capitolina Walker, 1869 [=Anostostoma crassidens Blanchard, 1851], by subsequent designation by Karny (1937)

References

• Burge, P.I. 2005: Repertoire of male-male agonistic behaviour in tusked weta (Motuweta riparia Gibbs) (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae) compared to tree weta (Hemideina Walker) (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae). New Zealand entomologist, 28: 15–27. PDF
• Morgan-Richards, M.; King, T.; Trewick, S. 2001: The evolutionary history of tree weta: a genetic approach. Pp. 111-126 in Field, L.H. (ed.) The biology of wetas, king crickets and their allies. CABI publishing.
• Ramsay, G.W.; Bigelow, R.S. 1978: New Zealand wetas of the genus Hemideina. Weta 1(2): 32-33. BUGZ Reference page. 
• Trewick, S.A.; Morgan-Richards, M. 1995: On the distribution of tree weta in the North Island, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 25: 485–493. Royal Society of New Zealand

Vernacular names

English: tree weta