Talk:Wētā

message: What is the origin of the word "weta"?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.252.183.253 (talk) 01:27, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  etymology 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Consensus to move page. (non-admin closure)  — YoungForever(talk)  04:00, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Weta →  – Wētā is the correct spelling for this in New Zealand English, as per all the significant national institutions (https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/topic/2499 (National Museum), https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-animals/invertebrates/weta/ (Department of Conservation), https://www.aucklandzoo.co.nz/animals/weta-punga (largest zoo), https://teara.govt.nz/en/weta (National encyclopedia), and etc.) and the page needs to be moved to that per NZ naming conventions. Stuartyeates (talk) 03:28, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 14 July 2020 

message: I removed from the lede the mention of the so-called "Australian winged weta", an undescribed Australian species of ‘’Pterapotrechus’’ established in NZ.  It is not mentioned in the body text and as yet there is no article about it. Also, inserting the addition of the Aussie flyer in a passage saying our wētā are all flightless, has dubious relevance and is confusing. When an article is created about this insect it will doubtless justify inclusion, but in its own referencd paragraph.Moriori (talk) 22:37, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reason for revert 

message: The animals go by different names in different places. Such as "king crickets" in Australia and South Africa. The name wētā is unique to New Zealand though. Maybe a biology specialist will chime in more broadly on the aspect of Orders/ Families/ Species.
Sources:
https://www.qm.qld.gov.au/Explore/Find+out+about/Animals+of+Queensland/Insects/Grasshoppers+Crickets+and+Katydids/Common+species/Giant+King+Cricket
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anostostomatidae
97.122.180.75 (talk) 03:19, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The wētā species talked about in the article are all found only in New Zealand and its offshore islands; none occur in in Australia or anywhere else (there are unpublished specimen labels that claim some were collected in Australia, but they've never been seen there since, and I think those records are mistakes, and in any case unusable as reliable sources in Wikipedia). The subfamily Deinacridinae is only found in NZ, consisting of Deinacrida (giant wētā) and Hemideina (tree wētā). Some species closely related to wētā occur elsewhere but they're not called wētā. So it's accurate to say wētā are endemic to NZ. See the Gibbs Te Ara reference: "Although these wētā species are found only in New Zealand, there are wētā-like insects in Australia, South Africa, South America, Europe, Asia and North America. Outside New Zealand, similar heavy-bodied, burrowing insects are known as king crickets. Light-weight jumping varieties are known as cave crickets or camel crickets." —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 20:35, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "wētā" not entirely endemic to New Zealand, just mostly endemic