List of Orthoptera of New Zealand

There are 162 species of orthopterans found in New Zealand, including the wētā, with five of those species being foreign and naturalized. According to a 2022 assessment, a slim majority of species (95) were not threatened, with five species improving their conservation status and nineteen species worsening, including Deinacrida mahoenui , which was reassessed as "nationally critical".

Species (12) marked with an asterisk (*) are considered "Threatened" (including "Nationally Critical", "Nationally Endangered", and "National Vulnerable") as of 2022; species (another 12) marked with a superscript dagger (^†) are considered "Data Deficient" as of the same year; species (4) marked with a superscript double dagger (^‡) are introduced and naturalized.

Grasshoppers and allies (Caelifera)

Sigaus piliferus is the type species for the genus Sigaus.

Short-horned grasshoppers (Acrididae)

• Locusta migratoria – migratory locust
• Phaulacridium marginale
• Phaulacridium otagoense
• Sigaus australis – southern alpine grasshopper
• Sigaus campestris
• Sigaus childi * – Otago arid grasshopper
• Sigaus dugdali – Dugdale's grasshopper
• Sigaus crassicauda
• Sigaus homerensis * – Homer grasshopper
• Sigaus minutus * – minute grasshopper
• Sigaus nitidus
• Sigaus nivalis – snow grasshopper
• Sigaus piliferus – North Island alpine grasshopper
• Sigaus robustus * – robust grasshopper
• Sigaus takahe ^†
• Sigaus tumidicauda
• Sigaus villosus – hairy mountain top grasshopper

Wētā (some Ensifera)

Giant wētā family (Anostostomatidae)

Deinacrida rugosa on a human hand for scale

Giant wētā ( Deinacrida )

• Deinacrida carinata * – Herekōpare wētā
• Deinacrida connectens – scree weta
• Deinacrida elegans * – mountain bluff wētā
• Deinacrida fallai – Poor Knights giant wētā
• Deinacrida heteracantha * – wētāpunga
• Deinacrida mahoenui * - Mahoenui giant wētā
• Deinacrida parva * – Kaikōura giant wētā
• Deinacrida pluvialis *
• Deinacrida rugosa * – Cook Strait giant wētā
• Deinacrida talpa * – giant mole wētā
• Deinacrida tibiospina * – Mt Arthur giant wētā

  

  Hemiandrus jacinda was named after Jacinda Ardern.

Ground wētā ( Anderus and Hemiandrus )

• Anderus brucei – Bruce's ground wētā
• Anderus maculifrons
• Anderus nox
• Anderus subantarcticus
• Anderus fiordensis
• Hemiandrus bilobatus – two-lobed ground wētā
• Hemiandrus celaeno
• Hemiandrus electra – Kahurangi ground wētā
• Hemiandrus focalis
• Hemiandrus jacinda – Jacinda's wētā
• Hemiandrus lanceolatus ^†
• Hemiandrus luna
• Hemiandrus maia
• Hemiandrus merope – Kapiti ground wētā
• Hemiandrus nitaweta
• Hemiandrus pallitarsis
• Hemiandrus sterope
• Hemiandrus superbus

Hemideina crassidens is not threatened.

Tree wētā ( Hemideina )

• Hemideina broughi – West Coast bush wētā
• Hemideina crassidens – Wellington tree wētā
• Hemideina femorata – Canterbury tree wētā
• Hemideina maori – mountain stone wētā
• Hemideina ricta – Banks Peninsula tree wētā
• Hemideina thoracica – Auckland tree wētā
• Hemideina trewicki – Hawke's Bay tree wētā

Tusked wētā

• Anisoura nicobarica – Northland tusked wētā
• Motuweta isolata – Mercury Island tusked wētā
• Motuweta riparia – Raukūmara tusked wētā

Pleioplectron simplex is a cave wētā found on the South Island.

Cave wētā family (Rhaphidophoridae)

• Dendroplectron aucklandense – Auckland Island cave wētā
• Insulanoplectron spinosum – Snares Island wētā
• Ischyroplectron isolatum – Bounty Island wētā
• Isoplectron armatum
• Isoplectron calcaratum
• Macropathus filifer
• Macropathus huttoni
• Maotoweta virescens – green moss wētā
• Miotopus diversus
• Miotopus richardsi – Aola Richards' cave wētā
• Neonetus huttoni ^†
• Neonetus pilosus
• Neonetus variegatus
• Notoplectron campbellense – Campbell Island cave wētā
• Novoplectron serratum
• Pachyrhamma delli
• Pachyrhamma giganteum ^†
• Pachyrhamma unicolor ^†
• Pallidoplectron peniculosum
• Pallidoplectron subterraneum
• Pallidoplectron turneri
• Paraneonetus multispinus ^†
• Petrotettix cupolaensis
• Petrotettix nigripes
• Petrotettix serratus
• Petrotettix spinosus
• Pharmacus cochleatus

• Pharmacus concinnus – elegant sorcerer alpine cave wētā
• Pharmacus cristatus – tufted sorcerer alpine cave wētā
• Pharmacus montanus – Mount Cook flea
• Pharmacus notabilis – Remarkables alpine cave wētā
• Pharmacus perfidus – Takitimu sorcerer alpine cave wētā
• Pharmacus senex – old sorcerer alpine cave wētā
• Pharmacus vallestris ^†
• Pleioplectron auratum – gold-haired cave wētā
• Pleioplectron caudatum
• Pleioplectron crystallae
• Pleioplectron flavicorne
• Pleioplectron gubernator
• Pleioplectron hudsoni – Hudson’s cave wētā
• Pleioplectron rodmorrisi – Rod Morris’ cave wētā
• Pleioplectron simplex
• Pleioplectron thomsoni – Thomson's cave wētā
• Pleioplectron triquetrum
• Setascutum ohauense
• Setascutum pallidum
• Talitropsis chopardi
• Talitropsis crassicruris
• Talitropsis irregularis ^†
• Talitropsis megatibia
• Talitropsis poduroides
• Talitropsis sedilloti

Crickets and allies (other Ensifera)

The tropical house cricket is introduced and naturalized to New Zealand.

True crickets (Gryllidae)

• Gryllodes sigillatus ^‡ – tropical house cricket
• Gryllopsis maoria ^†
• Lepidogryllus parvulus ^‡ – fast-chirping field cricket
• Teleogryllus commodus ^†

Mole crickets (Gryllotalpidae)

• Trimescaptor aotea ^†

Scaly crickets (Mogoplistidae)

Ornebius aperta is the only scaly cricket found in New Zealand.

• Ornebius aperta

Wood crickets (Nemobiinae)

• Bobilla bigelowi – small field cricket
• Bobilla nigrova – field cricket
• Metioche maorica – ground cricket

Katydids (Tettigoniidae)

• Austrosalomona falcata ^‡ – olive-green coastal katydid
• Caedicia simplex – garden katydid
• Conocephalus albescens
• Conocephalus bilineatus
• Conocephalus semivitatus
• Salomona solida ^†

Bibliography

• Steve Trewick, Danilo Hegg, Mary Morgan-Richards, Tara Murray, Corinne Watts, Peter Johns and Pascale Michel (2022). Conservation status of Orthoptera (wētā, crickets and grasshoppers) in Aotearoa New Zealand. Department of Conservation / Te Papa Atawhai. ISBN   978-1-99-118364-4.  This article incorporates textfrom this source, which is available under the CC BY 4.0 license.