Orthoptera Species File
species

Anderus subantarcticus (Salmon, 1950)

Nomenclature (4)

  • Zealandosandrus subantarcticus Salmon, 1950: 161.

    Holotype; c86b6232-e996-46f7-ab64-b0e9216f9fbb; deposited at: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa - Entomology (MONZ); New Zealand: Southern Islands: Snares Island

  • Hemiandrus subantarcticus (Salmon, 1950) in Johns, 1997: 129.
  • Anderus subantarcticus (Salmon, 1950) in Trewick, Taylor Smith & Morgan-Richards, 2024: 7, 11.
  • Anderus subantarcticus (Salmon, 1950) in Trewick & Morgan-Richards, 2025: 412, 416.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Reference to the sub-Antarctic zone where the type locality is located.

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