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Wētā is a loanword, from the Māori-language word wētā, which refers to this whole group of large insects; some types of wētā have a specific Māori name. [2] In New Zealand English, it is spelled either "weta" or "wētā", although the form with macrons is increasingly common in formal writing, as the Māori word weta (without macrons) instead means "filth or excrement". [3]
Hemideina femorata, the Canterbury tree weta (Māori, pūtangatanga) is a flightless nocturnal insect from the order Orthoptera and the genus Hemideina, it is endemic to Canterbury, New Zealand, on the South Island.
Tree wētā are commonly encountered in forests and suburban gardens throughout most of New Zealand. They are up to 40 mm long and most commonly live in holes in trees formed by beetle and moth larvae or where rot has set in after a twig has broken off.
Unlike other Hemideina species H. maori occupy an alpine habitat. [3] They are found at high elevation (above the tree line) of the South Island of New Zealand. They have been found above 1500 metres above sea level (m.a.s.l) with a lower limit of 1100m.a.s.l, from the Kaikōura Ranges south to the Rock and Pillar range in Otago.
Hemideina thoracica, commonly known as the Auckland tree wētā or tokoriro [1] [2] is a cricket-like insect (within the family Anostostomatidae). [2] [3] It is endemic to New Zealand and is found over most of the North Island, except for the Wellington region and regions 900 metres above sea level.
Hemideina crassidens, commonly known as the Wellington tree wētā, is a large, flightless, nocturnal insect in the family Anostostomatidae.This wētā species is endemic to New Zealand and populates regions in the southern half of North Island/Te Ika a Maui and the north-west of the South Island/Te Wai Pounamu.
Wētāpunga is the largest of the Deinacrida species. [9] [10] In captivity gravid Deinacrida heteracantha can weigh up to 70 g (2.5 oz), [10] but on average adult females weigh 32 g and adult males 7.4 g. [9]
The Cook Strait giant wētā is found only in New Zealand, on the islands of the North, South and Middle Trio, Stephens, Maud, Matiu/Somes and Mana. [4] [5] In 2007, this species was reintroduced to mainland New Zealand, where it had been extinct for over 100 years, and is now found in Zealandia Wildlife Sanctuary in the North Island. [6]