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)
- Phaulacridium otagoense (E)
- Sigaus australis (E)
- Sigaus campestris (E)
- Otago arid grasshopper (Sigaus childi) (E)
- Sigaus collinus (E)
- Sigaus crassicauda (E)
- Dugdale's grasshopper (Sigaus dugdali) (E)
- Minute grasshopper (Sigaus minutus) (E)
- Sigaus nitidus (E)
- Sigaus nivalis (E)
- North Island alpine grasshopper (Sigaus piliferus) (E)
- Robust grasshopper (Sigaus robustus) (E)
- Sigaus tumidicauda (E)
- Mountain top grasshopper (Sigaus villosus) (E)
Subfamily Oedipodinae
Family Gryllidae
Subfamily Gryllinae
- Tropical house cricket (Gryllodes sigillatus) (I)
- Gryllopsis maoria (E)
- Fast-chirping field cricket (Lepidogryllus parvulus) (I)
- Black field cricket (Teleogryllus commodus) (I)
Family Mogoplistidae
Subfamily Mogoplistinae
- Ornebius aperta (I)
Family Trigonidiidae
Subfamily Nemobiinae
- Austronemobius chelatus (E)
- Small field cricket (Bobilla bigelowi) (E)
- Bobilla nigrova (E)
- Mutonemobius marmoratus (E)
- Pteronemobius arima (PN)
- Confusing pygmy cricket (Pteronemobius truncatus) (PN)
Subfamily Trigonidiinae
Family Gryllotalpidae
Subfamily Gryllotalpinae
Family Rhaphidophoridae
Subfamily Macropathinae
- Crux boudica (E)
- Crux heggi (E)
- Dendroplectron aucklandense (E)
- Snares Island wētā (Insulanoplectron spinosum) (E)
- Insulanoplectron stanneum (E)
- Bounty Island wētā (Ischyroplectron isolatum) (E)
- Isoplectron armatum (E)
- Isoplectron ferratum (E)
- Isoplectron maculatum (E)
- Isoplectron pallidum (E)
- Isoplectron parallelum (E)
- Isoplectron serratum (E)
- Isoplectron virgatum (E)
- Macropathus filifer (E)
- Maotoweta virescens (E)
- Miotopus diversus (E)
- Miotopus richardsae (E)
- Neonetus variegatus (E)
- Notoplectron brewsterense (E)
- Campbell Island wētā (Notoplectron campbellense) (E)
- Novoplectron serratum (E)
- White-headed tokoriro (Occultastella morgana) (E)
- Auckland cave wētā (Pachyrhamma acanthocera) (E)
- Pachyrhamma cavernae (E)
- Pachyrhamma delli (E)
- Pachyrhamma edwardsii (E)
- Pachyrhamma fuscum (E)
- Pachyrhamma giganteum (E)
- Pachyrhamma longicauda (E)
- Pachyrhamma longipes (E)
- Goldmine cave wētā (Pachyrhamma uncatum) (E)
- Pachyrhamma unicolor (E)
- Pachyrhamma waitomoense (E)
- Pallidoplectron peniculosum (E)
- Pallidoplectron turneri (E)
- Pallidoplectron subterraneum (E)
- Paraneonetus multispinus (E)
- Pharmacus cochleatus (E)
- Pharmacus cristatus (E)
- Mount Cook flea (Pharmacus montanus) (E)
- Pharmacus notabilis (E)
- Pharmacus perfidus (E)
- Pharmacus senex (E)
- Pleioplectron auratum (E)
- Pleioplectron caudatum (E)
- Pleioplectron crystallae (E)
- Pleioplectron flavicorne (E)
- Pleioplectron gubernator (E)
- Pleioplectron hudsoni (E)
- Pleioplectron rodmorrisi (E)
- Pleioplectron simplex (E)
- Pleioplectron thomsoni (E)
- Pleioplectron triquetrum (E)
- Praecantrix saxicola (E)
- Praecantrix silvatica (E)
- Talitropsis chopardi (E)
- Talitropsis crassicruris (E)
- Talitropsis irregularis (E)
- Talitropsis megatibia (E)
- Talitropsis poduroides (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)
- Bruce's ground wētā (Anderus brucei) (E)
- Anderus fiordensis (E)
- Anderus luna (E)
- Anderus maculifrons (E)
- Anderus nox (E)
- Anderus pipiwai (E)
- Anderus rakiura (E)
- Anderus subantarcticus (E)
- Northland tusked wētā (Anisoura nicobarica) (E)
- Two-lobed ground wētā (Hemiandrus bilobatus) (E)
- Hemiandrus briarae (E)
- Hemiandrus celaeno (E)
- Hemiandrus dryadis (E)
- Shining amber ground wētā (Hemiandrus electra) (E)
- Hemiandrus fabella (E)
- Hemiandrus focalis (E)
- Jacinda's wētā (Hemiandrus jacinda) (E)
- Hemiandrus johnsi (E)
- Hemiandrus lanceolatus (E)
- Hemiandrus mataitai (E)
- Kapiti ground wētā (Hemiandrus merope) (E)
- Hemiandrus pallitarsis (E)
- Hemiandrus sterope (E)
- Hemiandrus superbus (E)
- Hemiandrus taygete (E)
Family Gryllacrididae
Subfamily Gryllacridinae
Family Tettigoniidae
Subfamily Conocephalinae
- Whitish meadow katydid (Conocephalus albescens) (PN)
- Small meadow katydid (Conocephalus bilineatus) (PN)
- Blackish meadow katydid (Conocephalus semivittatus) (PN)