SAS-L archives -- January 1997, week 3 (#74)
Maori called it wetapunga, "the god of > < > Guru ugly things". Even this giant insect was no match for rats and > now survives only on Little Barrier Island
www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9701c&L=sas-l&F=&S=&P=8106

NC State University Insect Museum
Perhaps the title was a reference to the origin of this taxon's common name, which is a contraction of Wetapunga - the "god of ugly things" or "monsters of the night".
blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/insects/entry/ugly_mouse_sized_grasshopper_in

SAS-L archives -- January 1997, week 2 (#284)
Maori called it wetapunga, "the god of < > Guru ugly things". Even this giant insect was no match for rats and now survives only on Little Barrier Island
listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9701b&L=sas-l&F=&S=&P=30929

SAS-L archives -- January 1997, week 2 (#209)
Maori called it wetapunga, "the god of < > Guru ugly things". Even this giant insect was no match for rats and now survives only on Little Barrier Island
www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9701b&L=sas-l&F=&S=&P=22842

University of Washington Libraries - Electronic Texts
Abundance and future options for wetapunga on Little Barrier Island / Abundance and population structure of humpback whales in the North Pacific Basin final report /
www.lib.washington.edu/types/texts/A.html

UW Libraries - LCSH Created by UW Catalogers
Wetapunga: Whatcom Creek (Wash.) Whatcom Creek Watershed (Wash.) Whiskey Jack Forest (Ont.) White-bellied fish eagle: White Chuck Mountain (Wash.) White Glacier (Jefferson County, Wash.)
www.lib.washington.edu/Msd/LCSH2005.html

Martin Luther King Jr.
The largest species of giant weta is the Little Barrier Island giant weta also known as the wetapunga. Giant weta tend to be less social and more passive than other weta.
sthweb.bu.edu/index.php?option=com_awiki&view=mediawiki&article=Giant_Weta&Itemid=176

By Subject - Zoology - Electronic Texts & Documents
Abundance and future options for wetapunga on Little Barrier Island / Abundance and population structure of humpback whales in the North Pacific Basin final report /
www.lib.washington.edu/subject/zoology/dr/eltxt.html

By Subject - International Studies - Electronic Texts & Documents
Abundance and future options for wetapunga on Little Barrier Island / Abundance and population trends of mollymawks on Campbell Island / Abzu guide to resources for the study of the
www.lib.washington.edu/Subject/International/dr/eltxt.html

Biodiversity of A ustralasian insects
These latter -outsized, flightless orthopterans -include the Little Barrier Island giant weta( Deinacridaheteracantha ) or wetapunga (Maori for'god of ugly things'), one of the
entomology.ucdavis.edu/gullanandcranstonlab/Cranstonpdfs/InsectBiodiversity-Australia.pdf