Fauna of New Zealand
The Fauna of New Zealand / Ko te Aitanga Pepeke o Aotearoa series has been widely acclaimed for its role in presenting New Zealand's unique terrestrial invertebrate fauna to the world since 1982.
The Fauna of New Zealand is a monograph series with approximately two new issues a year. 67 issues have been published to date. Each number contains a checklist of the taxa, an introduction to the group, descriptions of the taxa, and illustrations (line and half-tone, and in recent years colour images). It was the first scientific series in New Zealand to have popular summaries in Māori and English.
Fauna of New Zealand Online
- Extracts from introductory section for all 67 contributions. Includes abstract, checklist of taxa, and introduction.
Free searchable PDF facsimiles of printed numbers, available for downloading for all 67 contributions. The Editorial Board endorses the principle of Open Access to scientific information on New Zealand terrestrial invertebrates, and this is one reason why free PDF facsimiles of all printed numbers are provided on this website. However, the image resolution in these free PDFs is not as high as the ink-on-paper copies or high-quality PDFs. As well fine lines and rules in illustrations may be broken or do not show in these free PDFs. These image resolution differences can be seen on this demonstration page using as an example the male lucanid stag beetle, Geodorcus helmsi (Sharp) published in Fauna N.Z. 61. - Quicklinks to taxa
- Coleoptera (beetles)
- Diptera (flies)
- Hemiptera (true bugs, cicadas, leaf hoppers, scale insects, etc.)
- Hymenoptera (bees and wasps)
- Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies)
- Insecta, small orders (Ephemeroptera, mayflies; Mantodea, mantids; Plecoptera, stoneflies; Protura; Thysanoptera, thrips)
- Arachnida (Acari, mites; Araneae, spiders)
- Other invertebrate groups (Amphipoda, landhoppers; Gastropoda, slugs and snails; Nematoda, eelworms)
- Quicklink to Online Abstracts list
- Quicklink to Online Popular summaries list
- Quicklink to Online Māori summaries list
See details of how the PDFs were prepared.
PDF search hint: find information associated with specimens by using a locality or plant name as the search term.
Note: Macronised vowels in Māori popular summaries and symbols, such as those for male and female, for Fauna N.Z. numbers 40 onwards may not display on some computers; if this occurs on your computer download this font set (WPMultinationalA Roman) and this font set (WPIconicSymbolsA) and place them in your Windows Fonts folder.
XML versions of Fauna of NZ 11, 21, 40, and 43. These were made available in a project made possible
through TFBIS (Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity Information System) funding administered by the Department of Conservation.- Statistics about the Fauna series
- List of Fauna of NZ issues
Check out the latest Fauna issue
Primary Contact:
The Series Editor is Dr Trevor Crosby, Landcare Research, based at the Tamaki Campus, University of Auckland.
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Phone: +64 9 574 4100 |
Series ISSN: 0111-5383 (print); 1179-7193 (online, from number 62).