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the wētā and any growth of the bark surrounding the opening is chewed away. They readily occupy a preformed gallery in a piece of wood (a "wētā motel") and can be kept in a suburban garden as pets. A gallery might house a harem of up to 10 adult females and one male.
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Bulgarella, Mariana; Trewick, Steven A.; Minards, Niki A.; Jacobson, Melissa J.; Morgan-Richards, Mary (2013). "Shifting ranges of two tree weta species (
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Kelly, Clint D. (2006). "The
Relationship Between Resource Control, Association with Females and Male Weapon Size in a Male Dominance Insect".
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Wyman, Tarryn E.; Trewick, Steve A.; Morgan-Richards, Mary; Noble, Alasdair D. L. (2010). "Mutualism or opportunism? Tree fuchsia (
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869:"Intraspecific karyotype variation is not concordant with allozyme variation in the Auckland tree weta of New Zealand,
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Mckean, NE; Trewick, SA; Morgan-Richards, M (2015). "Comparative cytogenetics of North Island tree wētā in sympatry".
493:"Diversification of New Zealand weta (Orthoptera: Ensifera: Anostostomatidae) and their relationships in Australasia"
1209:"New Zealand Tree and Giant Wētā (Orthoptera) Transcriptomics Reveal Divergent Selection Patterns in Metabolic Loci"
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region. Within this range are nine chromosome races and there are five hybrid zones where six of these races meet.
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spp.): competitive exclusion and changing climate".
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419:A rare species only found on
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755:New Zealand Natural Sciences
701:Journal of Insect Physiology
27:Genus of orthopteran insects
772:Field, Laurence H. (2001).
408:Banks Peninsula tree wētā,
361:, the northern part of the
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573:Griffin, M. (2011).
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293:Auckland tree wētā,
280:West Coast bush wētā
261:Hemideina crassidens
52:Hemideina crassidens
1038:Fuchsia excorticata
917:Hemideina thoracica
871:Hemideina thoracica
806:Hemideina thoracica
649:Hemideina thoracica
503:(1508): 3427–3437.
296:Hemideina thoracica
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744:"Is the tree weta
697:Wehi, Priscilla M.
643:Wehi, Priscilla M.
550:"Wētā – Tree Wētā"
375:Hemideina femorata
326:Hemideina trewicki
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1326:Wikispecies
673:"Tree wētā"
661:(1): 75–83.
451:H. femorata
338:Hawke's Bay
208:New Zealand
143:Subfamily:
1474:Categories
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853:2019-07-04
829:2019-07-04
682:2019-01-27
584:2018-06-29
559:2019-01-27
461:References
439:West Coast
385:Canterbury
367:West Coast
365:, and the
355:Wellington
314:Wellington
249:stridulate
175:See text.
123:Suborder:
117:Orthoptera
97:Arthropoda
35:Tree wētā
1332:Hemideina
1317:Q10521122
1302:Hemideina
1278:0301-4223
1194:881301862
1143:2045-7758
1101:0179-1613
1066:1442-9985
1042:Hemideina
988:0077-9962
964:Hemideina
941:0014-3820
921:Evolution
899:0024-4066
792:559432458
721:0022-1910
629:0305-0270
605:Hemideina
517:0962-8436
475:Hemideina
447:karyotype
359:Wairarapa
318:Wairarapa
241:nocturnal
235:Behaviour
220:Southland
212:Hemideina
192:Hemideina
183:Tree wētā
158:Hemideina
83:Kingdom:
77:Eukaryota
18:Tree weta
1311:Wikidata
1243:30957857
1161:27066230
1081:Ethology
1023:16543452
949:12778554
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535:18782727
455:H. ricta
306:tokoriro
245:arboreal
169:Species
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127:Ensifera
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87:Animalia
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1003:Science
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285:Species
226:Habitat
204:endemic
195:of the
153:Genus:
113:Order:
107:Insecta
103:Class:
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1346:8NSFT
751:(PDF)
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