pihareinga
1. (loan) (noun) black field cricket, Teleogryllus commodus - flatish black insect active at night in summer when its loud high-pitched chirping is heard. Common from Kaikōura north in grassland. The Māori name probably derives from ‘bushranger’, an early New Zealand term for this species of introduced insect.
Engari, ko te pihareinga kei te noho mārire, mō te raumati ka tangi ai (TWM 22/8/1863:2). / But the black cricket hibernates and chirps in the summer.
