Hemideina gigantea Colenso, 1881
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Colenso (1881) On some new and undescribed Species of New Zealand Insects, of the Orders Orthoptera and Coleoptera. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 14, 277–282. Available from http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_14/rsnz_14_00_003320.html
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Orthoptera
- family
- Anostostomatidae
- genus
- Deinacrida
- species
- Deinacrida heteracantha
Name
- Homonyms
- Hemideina gigantea Colenso, 1881
Bibliographic References
- Colenso. 1881. On some new and undescribed Species of New Zealand Insects, of the Orders Orthoptera and Coleoptera. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute (Trans. N. Zeal. Inst.) 14:278
- Colenso. 1886. A description of a large and new species of orthopterous insect of the genus Hemideina, Walker. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 19:147
- Early. 2016. Provenance of the type specimen of William Colenso's giant weta Hemideina gigantea. Records of the Auckland Museum 51:49-53
- Hutton. 1896. The Stenopelmatidæ of New Zealand. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute (Trans. N. Zeal. Inst.) 29:208-242
- Karny. 1937. Orthoptera Fam. Gryllacrididae, Subfamiliae Omnes. Genera Insectorum, P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles 206:222
- Kirby, W.F. 1906. Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae), British Museum (Natural History), London 2:114
- St George. 2013. Colenso, Dieffenbach and the giant weta. eColenso 4(10):14-16