14 Jun 2019

Critter of the Week: The Maungatua Stonefly

From Afternoons, 3:35 pm on 14 June 2019

This week, DoC's threatened species ambassador, Nicola Toki tells us about the incredible accidental discovery of a new insect species by Dunedin academic Brodie Foster and Professor Jon Waters of Otago University. 

It is a wing-reduced species of the stonefly genus Zelandoperla Tillyard, and has been named the Maungatua Stonefly.