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Hemideina maori (Pictet & Saussure, 1893)

CollectionObject 1530821; 79c48982-19cc-4584-8c6b-955bcf47f16e: male, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530821; 79c48982-19cc-4584-8c6b-955bcf47f16e: male, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530821; 79c48982-19cc-4584-8c6b-955bcf47f16e: male, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530821; 79c48982-19cc-4584-8c6b-955bcf47f16e: male, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530821; 79c48982-19cc-4584-8c6b-955bcf47f16e: male, frontal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530821; 79c48982-19cc-4584-8c6b-955bcf47f16e: male, subgenital plate (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530821; 79c48982-19cc-4584-8c6b-955bcf47f16e: male, subgenital plate (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530821; 79c48982-19cc-4584-8c6b-955bcf47f16e: male, abdominal apex (syntype). (CollectionObject).
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CollectionObject 1530822; 74243701-6f0b-4b3b-8174-3dd36bbeb89b: female, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530822; 74243701-6f0b-4b3b-8174-3dd36bbeb89b: female, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530822; 74243701-6f0b-4b3b-8174-3dd36bbeb89b: female, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530822; 74243701-6f0b-4b3b-8174-3dd36bbeb89b: female, frontal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530822; 74243701-6f0b-4b3b-8174-3dd36bbeb89b: female, subgenital plate (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1530822; 74243701-6f0b-4b3b-8174-3dd36bbeb89b: labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (26)

  • Deinacrida maori Pictet & Saussure, 1893: 296.

    Syntype; male; 83282c9e-280a-4b26-9fdb-156004f3a413; deposited at: Instituut voor Taxonomische Zoologie, Zoologisch Museum (ZMAN); New Zealand. Syntypes (n= 38); male; 4a8cdb74-288b-4cb1-9570-6c557e31550b; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); New Zealand. Syntypes (n= 39); female; ff5db278-1fec-4c10-908a-77828ffcd99c; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); New Zealand. Syntype; male; 5522c844-25b2-432c-916b-b97eba12903f; deposited at: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany (SMNS); New Zealand. Syntype; male; 79c48982-19cc-4584-8c6b-955bcf47f16e; deposited at: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany (SMNS); New Zealand. Syntype; female; 74243701-6f0b-4b3b-8174-3dd36bbeb89b; deposited at: Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart, Germany (SMNS); New Zealand. Syntype; male; 800f5395-65d4-47f0-a879-e2a2a5e15820; deposited at: Martin Luther Universität, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (MLUH); New Zealand. Syntype; male; 4e3591bb-85fe-4865-b343-7454a1090c53; deposited at: Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali (MRSN); New Zealand

  • Hemideina maori (Pictet & Saussure, 1893) in Hutton, 1896: 219.
  • Hemideina maori (Pictet & Saussure, 1893) in Wharton, 2011
  • Hemideina maori (Pictet & Saussure, 1893) in Hollier, 2011: 375.

References (24)

  • Pictet, A. & Saussure, H.L.F.de (1893) De quelques orthoptères nouveaux. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 8, 293–318. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/39731#page/363/mode/1up
  • Hutton, F.W. (1896) The Stenopelmatidæ of New Zealand. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 29, 208–242. Available at http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_29/rsnz_29_00_001070.html
  • Karny, H.H. (1927) Revision der Gryllacriden des Zoologischen Institutes in Halle a.S., sowie einiger Tettigoniiden-Typen von Burmeister und Giebel. Zeitschrift für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften, 88, 1–14.
  • Karny, H.H. (1928) Gryllacriden aus verschiedenen deutschen und österreichischen Sammlungen. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 89, 247–312. Available at http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Entomologische-Zeitung-Stettin_89_0247-0312.pdf
  • Karny, H.H. (1935) Die Gryllacrididen des Pariser Museums und der Collection L. Chopard. Zweiter Teil. Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 10(3-4), 293–393. Available at http://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/147219/1/1934-10-3_4-015.pdf
  • Karny, H.H. (1937) Orthoptera Fam. Gryllacrididae, Subfamiliae Omnes. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 206, 1–317 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/223806#page/9/mode/1up
  • Salmon, J.T. (1950) A revision of the New Zealand wetas - Anostostominae (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae). Dominion Museum Records in Entomology, 1, 121–177. Available at https://bugz.ento.org.nz/detail/e3878a90-ce05-401a-a30a-d75d1b60d9ad
  • Field, L.H. (1978) The striduladory apparatus of New Zealand Wetas in the genus Hemideina (Insecta: Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 8(4), 359–375. Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03036758.1978.10423318
  • Ramsay, G.W. (1979) Annotated bibliography and index to the New Zealand wetas. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Wellington, 1–56 pp.
  • Passerin d' Entrèves, P. (1981) Cataloghi IV - Collezioni Ortotterologiche del Museo di Zoologia dell'Università di Torino. Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, 1–127 pp.
  • Field, L.H. (1982) Stridulatory structures and acoustic spectra of seven species of New Zealand wetas (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae). International Journal of Insect Morphology and Embryology, 11(1), 39–51.
  • Ramløv, H., Bedford, J. & Leader, J. (1992) Freezing tolerance of the New Zealand alpine weta, Hemideina maori Hutton (Orthoptera; Stenopelmatidae). Journal of Thermal Biology, 17(1), 51–54.
  • Gorochov, A.V. (1995) System and evolution of the suborder Ensifera (Orthoptera). Part I. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 260, 1–224. [in Russian]
  • 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. Available at http://wetageta.massey.ac.nz/PDFs/Articles_from_Jo/Johns%201997.pdf
  • Gibbs, G.W. (1998) Why are some weta (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae) vulnerable yet others are common? Journal of Insect Conservation, 2(3-4), 161–166. Available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/g82mwn350n242330/
  • Ramløv, H. (1999) Microclimate and variations in haemolymph composition in the freezing-tolerant New Zealand alpine weta Hemideina maori Hutton (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae). Journal of comparative Physiology B Biochemical Systemic & Environmental Physiology, 169(3), 224–235. Available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/nh146de8vtycwljr/
  • 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
  • Morgan-Richards, M., King, T.M. & Trewick, S.A. (2001) The evolutionary history of tree weta: A genetic approach. In The Biology of Wetas, King Crickets and their Allies. Wallingford. pp. 111–124.
  • King, T.M., Kennedy, M. & Wallis, G.P. (2003) Phylogeographic genetic analysis of the alpine weta, Hemideina maori: Evolution of a colour polymorphism and origins of a hybrid zone. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 33(4), 715–729. Available at http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/Site/publish/Journals/jrsnz/2003/038.aspx
  • Holstein, J. & Ingrisch, S. (2004) Catalogue of type specimens of Orthoptera (Insecta) deposited in the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart. Part 1: Ensifera. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie A (Biologie).
  • Joyce, S.J., Jamieson, I.G. & Barker, R. (2004) Survival of adult mountain stone weta Hemideina maori (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae) along an altitude gradient as determined by mark-recapture. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 28(1), 55–61. Available at http://newzealandecology.org/nzje/2210
  • 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
  • Hollier, J.A. (2011) An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Alphonse Pictet (alone, and with Henri de Saussure) with an account of the primary type material present in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle in Geneva. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 118(2), 345–400. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43718437
  • Wharton, D.A. (2011) Cold tolerance of New Zealand alpine insects. Journal of Insect Physiology, 57(8 Special Issue), 1090–1095.

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