Species

Anderus maculifrons (Walker, 1869)

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CollectionObject 1505603; 7741bc0a-4722-4476-86be-f9560a86c336: Male, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1505603; 7741bc0a-4722-4476-86be-f9560a86c336: Male, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1505603; 7741bc0a-4722-4476-86be-f9560a86c336: Male, label (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1505603; 7741bc0a-4722-4476-86be-f9560a86c336: Male, dorsolateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1505603; 7741bc0a-4722-4476-86be-f9560a86c336: Male, anterior view (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1505604; a299fbca-016e-4a9c-a99e-24bebe994ade: Female, ventral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1505604; a299fbca-016e-4a9c-a99e-24bebe994ade: Female, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1505604; a299fbca-016e-4a9c-a99e-24bebe994ade: Female, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1505604; a299fbca-016e-4a9c-a99e-24bebe994ade: Female, anterior view (syntype). (CollectionObject).

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CollectionObject 1505604; a299fbca-016e-4a9c-a99e-24bebe994ade: Female, label (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1567399; 8ce70f28-eacf-47fa-86b7-c3a3514dbfa8, NHMUK015982117: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1567399; 8ce70f28-eacf-47fa-86b7-c3a3514dbfa8, NHMUK015982117: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (25)

Libanasa maculifrons Walker, 1869: 209.
Holotype; female; NHMUK015982117; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); New Zealand
Onosandrus maori Pictet & Saussure, 1893: 300.
Syntypes (n= 2); male; 7741bc0a-4722-4476-86be-f9560a86c336; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); New Zealand: Canterbury: White Horse Hill. Syntypes (n= 2); female; a299fbca-016e-4a9c-a99e-24bebe994ade; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); New Zealand: Canterbury: White Horse Hill

Anderus maculifrons (Walker, 1869) in Trewick, Taylor Smith & Morgan-Richards, 2024: 11.
Anderus maculifrons (Walker, 1869) in Trewick & Morgan-Richards, 2025: 412, 416.

References (19)

Walker, F. (1869) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London, Vol. 1, 1–224 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/catalogueofspeci01britrich
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

Kirby, W.F. (1906) Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). In A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London. Vol. 2, i-viii, 1–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29662

Karny, H.H. (1930) Revision der Gryllacriden des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien einschließlich der Collection Brunner v. Wattenwyl. 2. Hälfte. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 44, 45–198. Available at http://www.biologiezentrum.at/pdf_frei_remote/ANNA_44_0045-0198.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

Cary, P.R.L. (1983) Diet of the ground weta Zealandosandrus gracilis (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae). New Zealand J. Zool., 10(3), 295–298.

Meads, M.J. (1990) The Weta Book: A Guide to the Identification of Wetas. 36 pp.

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

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

Jewell, T. (2007) Two new species of Hemiandrus (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae) from Fiordland National Park, New Zealand. Zootaxa, 1542, 49–57.

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

Chappell, E.M., Webb, D.S. & Tonkin, J.D. (2014) Notes on sexual size dimorphism, sex ratio and movements of adult ground weta Hemiandrus maculifrons (Walker) (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae). New Zealand Entomologist, 37(2), 83–92.

Johns, P.M. & Cook, L.D. (2014) Maotoweta virescens new genus and new species; hidden in a moss forest (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae). Records of the Canterbury Museum, 27, 11–17. [2013] Available at http://www.canterburymuseum.com/uploadGallery/PDF/CM%20Records%202013.pdf

Chappell, E.M., Webb, D.S., Brown, A.J. & Tonkin, J.D. (2015) A preliminary survey of altitudinal variation in two ground weta species, Hemiandrus maculifrons (Walker) and Hemiandrus pallitarsis (Walker) (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae). New Zealand Entomologist, 38(1), 1–6.

Taylor Smith, B.L., Trewick, S.A. & Morgan-Richards, M. (2016) Three new ground weta species and a redescription of Hemiandrus maculifrons. New Zealand J. Zool., 43(4), 363–383. Available at http://www.massey.ac.nz/~strewick/PDFs/Taylor-Smith%20et%20al%202016%20H.%20maculifrons.pdf

Trewick, S.A., Taylor Smith, B.L. & Morgan-Richards, M. (2024) Wētā Aotearoa—Polyphyly of the New Zealand Anostostomatidae (Insecta: Orthoptera). Insects, 15(787), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects15100787
Trewick, S.A. & Morgan-Richards, M. (2025) Two new species of New Zealand Anderus Trewick et al. 2024 ground wētā (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae). Zootaxa, 5666(3), 408–418. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5666.3.5

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
Species	1	0	6	7