Combinations

• Deinacridopsis connectens: original combination

Primary references

• Ander, K. 1939: Vergleichend-anatomische und Phylogenetische Studien über die Ensifera (Saltatoria). Opuscula entomologica, supplement (2) [not seen]

Additional references

• Field, L.H. 1980: Observations on the biology of Deinacrida connectens (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae), an alpine weta. New Zealand journal of zoology, 7(2): 211–220. BUGZ Google books
• Gibbs, G.W. 1999: Four new species of giant weta, Deinacrida (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae: Deinacridinae) from New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 29(4): 307–324. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1999.9517600
• Johns, P.M. 1997. The Gondwanaland weta: family Anostostomatidae (formerly in Stenopelmatidae, Henicidae or Mimnermidae): nomenclatural problems, world checklist, new genera and species. Journal of Orthoptera research, (6): 125–138. DOI: 10.2307/3503546 JSTOR . Reference page. 
• Ramsay, G.W. 1961: The synonymy and systematics of a genus and two species of New Zealand weta (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae: Henicinae). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B), 30: 85–89. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1961.tb00169.x
• Salmon, J.T. 1950: Revision of the New Zealand wetas - Anostostominae (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae). Dominion Museum records in entomology, 1: 121–177. BUGZ

• Trewick, S.A. 2001: Scree weta phylogeography: surviving glaciation and implications for Pleistocene biogeography in New Zealand. New Zealand journal of zoology, 28(3): 291–298. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.2001.9518271

• Trewick, S.A.; Morgan-Richards, M. 2004: Phylogenetics of New Zealand's tree, giant and tusked weta (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae): evidence from mitochondrial DNA. Journal of Orthoptera research, 13(2): 185–196. JSTOR

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• Patrick, B.H.; Cuthbert, R. 1999: Lepidoptera and other insects of the Seaward Kaikoura Range. Records of the Canterbury Museum, 13: 123–127. [Publication date: 'December 1999', sourced from first page of article]

• Wise, K.A.J. 1977: A synonymic checklist of the Hexapoda of the New Zealand sub-region: the smaller orders. Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum, (11)