Deinacrida mahoenui, Mahoenui giant weta A Mahoenui giant wētā, showing the common dark mahogany colouration. From its ovipositor it is clearly female.
Description
English: Large female Mahoenui giant wētā (Deinacrida mahoenui) being handled, dark-brown phase.
Date 12 March 2004, 10:05:32
Source New Zealand Department of Conservation http://www.doc.govt.nz/
Author Amanda Haigh
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DOC_MGW_in_the_hand.jpg
The Mahoenui giant wētā (Deinacrida mahoenui) is a flightless insect in the giant wētā family Anostostomatidae. It is endemic to the area of Mahoenui, New Zealand, and the world population for some time was restricted to a single patch of introduced gorse on farmland. Order: Orthoptera, Family: Anostostomatidae, Genus: Deinacrida, Species: Deinacrida mahoenui Gibbs, 1999.
