Corinne Watts


Corinne Hannah Watts is a New Zealand entomologist and ecologist. Specimens collected by Watts are held at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.

Education

Watts graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with a MSc in Ecology in 1999, and gained a PhD in Invertebrate Ecology from the University of Canterbury in 2006.

Conservation and entomology work

Watts is employed by Landcare Research in Hamilton, New Zealand, in the Biodiversity and Conservation team. Watts has been involved in the conservation of wētā, including the Mahoenui giant wētā, a large and endangered species native to New Zealand. Watts has also been involved with Landcare's tui conservation work. Watts has also researched the impacts of predator-fences at Maungatautari, Waikato. In 2006, Watts was part of a team who first described Houdinia flexilissima, a species of moth endemic to New Zealand.

Selected works