species
Deinacrida elegans Gibbs, 1999
bluff weta
Nomenclature (3)
- Deinacrida elegans Gibbs, 1999: 315.
Holotype; male; 031ad846-5102-45ff-b426-15c28c0964cb; deposited at: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa - Entomology (MONZ); New Zealand: Canterbury: Southern Alps, Mount Somers
- Deinacrida elegans Gibbs, 1999 in Gibbs, 2001: 43.
- Deinacrida elegans Gibbs, 1999 in Trewick & Morgan-Richards, 2004: 185.
Nomenclature references (3)
- 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. Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03014223.1999.9517600#preview
- Gibbs, G.W. (2001) Habitats and biogeography of New Zealand's Deinacridine and tusked weta species. In The Biology of Wetas, King Crickets and their Allies. Wallingford. pp. 35–55. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=CFItJVfOFDAC
- 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. Available at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.1665/1082-6467%282004%29013%5B0185%3APONZTG%5D2.0.CO%3B2
Descendants and synonyms
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