List of Orthoptera of New Zealand

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A list of Orthoptera found in New Zealand, including the Chatham, Snares, Auckland, Bounty, and Campbell Islands. Most native Orthoptera species of New Zealand are in the suborder Ensifera, and the vast majority are endemic to the country.

For the Kermadec Islands, Cook Islands, Niue, and Tokelau, see List of Orthoptera of Polynesia.

The following tags have been used to highlight some categories of occurrence:

(E) Endemic - a species endemic to New Zealand.

(PN) Possibly Native - a species that occurs in nearby eastern Australia, but has insufficient data to determine if New Zealand is part of its native range.

(I) Introduced - an exotic species that has established a breeding population.

(V) Vagrant - a rare individual outside of its typical range.

Family Acrididae

Subfamily Catantopinae

• New Zealand grasshopper (Phaulacridium marginale) (E)
• Sigaus australis (E)
• Otago arid grasshopper (Sigaus childi) (E)
• Robust grasshopper (Sigaus robustus) (E)

Subfamily Oedipodinae

• Migratory locust (Locusta migratoria)

Family Gryllidae

Subfamily Gryllinae

• Tropical house cricket (Gryllodes sigillatus) (I)
• Fast-chirping field cricket (Lepidogryllus parvulus) (I)
• Black field cricket (Teleogryllus commodus) (I)

Family Mogoplistidae

Subfamily Mogoplistinae

• Ornebius aperta (I)

Family Trigonidiidae

Subfamily Nemobiinae

• Small field cricket (Bobilla bigelowi) (E)
• Confusing pygmy cricket (Pteronemobius truncatus) (PN)

Subfamily Trigonidiinae

• New Zealand trig (Trigonidium maoricum) (E)

Family Gryllotalpidae

Subfamily Gryllotalpinae

• New Zealand mole cricket (Triamescaptor aotea) (E)

Family Rhaphidophoridae

Subfamily Macropathinae

• Dendroplectron aucklandense (E)
• Snares Island wētā (Insulanoplectron spinosum) (E)
• Insulanoplectron stanneum (E)
• Bounty Island wētā (Ischyroplectron isolatum) (E)
• Isoplectron armatum (E)
• Campbell Island wētā (Notoplectron campbellense) (E)
• Auckland cave wētā (Pachyrhamma acanthocera) (E)
• Pachyrhamma delli (E)
• Pachyrhamma edwardsii (E)
• Pachyrhamma longipes (E)
• Pleioplectron hudsoni (E)
• Pleioplectron simplex (E)
• Pleioplectron thomsoni (E)
• Talitropsis sedilloti (E)

Family Anostostomatidae

Subfamily Anostostomatinae

• Herekopare wētā (Deinacrida carinata) (E)
• Scree wētā (Deinacrida connectens) (E)
• Bluff wētā (Deinacrida elegans) (E)
• Poor Knights giant wētā (Deinacrida fallai) (E)
• Little Barrier giant wētā (Deinacrida heteracantha) (E)
• Mahoenui giant wētā (Deinacrida mahoenui) (E)
• Kaikoura giant wētā (Deinacrida parva) (E)
• Mount Cook giant wētā (Deinacrida pluvialis) (E)
• Cook Strait giant wētā (Deinacrida rugosa) (E)
• Giant mole wētā (Deinacrida talpa) (E)
• Mount Arthur giant wētā (Deinacrida tibiospina) (E)
• Otago ground wētā (Hemiandrus maia) (E)
• West Coast bush wētā (Hemideina broughi) (E)
• Wellington tree wētā (Hemideina crassidens) (E)
• Canterbury tree wētā (Hemideina femorata) (E)
• Mountain stone wētā (Hemideina maori) (E)
• Banks Peninsula tree wētā (Hemideina ricta) (E)
• Auckland tree wētā (Hemideina thoracica) (E)
• Hawke's Bay tree wētā (Hemideina trewicki) (E)
• Mercury Island tusked wētā (Motuweta isolata) (E)
• Raukūmara tusked wētā (Motuweta riparia) (E)

Undetermined subfamily (incertae sedis)

• Northland tusked wētā (Anisoura nicobarica) (E)
• Hemiandrus pallitarsis (E)

Family Gryllacrididae

Subfamily Gryllacridinae

• Australian raspy cricket (Pterapotrechus salomonoides) (I)

Family Tettigoniidae

Subfamily Conocephalinae

• Whitish meadow katydid (Conocephalus albescens) (PN)
• Small meadow katydid (Conocephalus bilineatus) (PN)
• Blackish meadow katydid (Conocephalus semivittatus) (PN)

Subfamily Phaneropterinae

• Australian common garden katydid (Caedicia simplex)