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    • A Austroponera castanea ant on dirt.
    Rights: Uwe Schneehagen, CC BY-NC 4.0 Published 31 October 2019 Size: 1.6 MB Referencing Hub media

    New Zealand only has only 11 known species of ants, including the Austroponera castanea ant. In contrast, Australia has about 1,200 described species, but it is estimated that the total number of ant species is twice that number.

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      Insect taxonomy

      One of New Zealand’s most well known insects is the wētā, of the Orthoptera order, but there are thousands of other insects species, some of which we know very little about. Rights: Photo by Tom ...

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