Giant weta
- Description
- This giant weta was collected in New Zealand and donated Major ‘Bertie’ Gay who was a curator at the Museum. Weta can reach up to an enormous 10 cm in body length and are an example of a phenomenon known as ‘island gigantism’.
- Accession Loan No.
- 81/2003/1175
- Collection Class
- Arthropods
- Common Name
- giant weta
- Simple Name
- insect: bush cricket
- Full Name
- ORTHOPTERA: STENOPELMATIDAE: Deinacrida heteracantha: giant weta
- Family Group
- Collector / Excavator
- Gay, Major Arthur Bertie (from the collection of)
- Collection Country
- New Zealand
- Collection Area Region
- Australia and New Zealand
- Collection Continent
- Oceania
- Phylum
- ARTHROPODA
- Family
- STENOPELMATIDAE
- Genus
- Deinacrida
- Species
- heteracantha
