The large mountain scree weta is common thoughout all the eastern mountains of Marlborough, Canterbury and North Otago. It extends further westwards into the Main Divide and adjacent mountains but only at relatively smal...

This is the common big-headed weta widely distributed through the southern half of the North Island, Marlborough Sounds, Westland to as far south as the Eglington Valley in Fiordland. It favours holes and cavities of a w...

A species found in the drier eastern forests and shrublands, and especially native vegetation along streams, of Marlborough and Canterbury. It is not tolerant of urban conditions.

Widespread in the South Island, the rock weta ranges from cool-temperate shrubland on depleted stony soils (eg Mackenzie Basin riverbeds) to alpine grassland and screes. It is relatively common at most sites. On Mou Waho...

The Banks Peninsula tree weta is an enigma. The very eastern population is relatively easy to recognise but it interbreeds with Hemideina femorata in the central portion of the peninsula, though the progeny are a...

The northern tree weta has habits very similar to that of Hemideina crassidens. It is also tolerant of urban conditions. It is common from at least northwards from a line through Taranaki, Taupo to East Cape, then...