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    The orthopteran family Rhaphidophoridae of the suborder Ensifera has a worldwide distribution. Common names for these insects include cave crickets, camel...
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    group of about 100 insect species in the families Anostostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae endemic to New Zealand. They are giant flightless crickets, and some...
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    taxa in the Ensifera may be called crickets sensu lato, including the Rhaphidophoridae – cave or camel crickets; Stenopelmatidae – Jerusalem or sand crickets;...
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    Novotettix is a monotypic genus of cave cricket/wētā in the family Rhaphidophoridae endemic to south-east Australia. The genus Novotettix was first described...
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  • Ceuthophilus divergens (category Rhaphidophoridae stubs)
    divergent camel cricket, is a species of camel crickets in the family Rhaphidophoridae. It is found in North America. "Ceuthophilus divergens Species Information"...
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    Occultastella (category Rhaphidophoridae)
    Occultastella is a monotypic genus of tokoriro (cave wētā) in the family Rhaphidophoridae. The sole member of this genus, Occultastella morgana, was described...
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    Pachyrhamma waitomoensis (category Rhaphidophoridae stubs)
    of water without sinking. Richards, Aola (1959). "Revision of the Rhaphidophoridae (Orthoptera) of New Zealand Part VI" (PDF). Transactions of the Royal...
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    Tropidischia (category Rhaphidophoridae)
    Tropidischia is a genus of camel crickets in the family Rhaphidophoridae. The genus is monotypic, being represented by the single species Tropidischia...
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    Isoplectron is a genus of cave wētā in the family Rhaphidophoridae with three species currently recognised. The genus is endemic to New Zealand and distributed...
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    Tachycines asynamorus (category Rhaphidophoridae)
    asynamorus is a cave cricket and the type species of the genus Tachycines (Rhaphidophoridae). In English-speaking countries it is known as the greenhouse camel...
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    Turbottoplectron (category Rhaphidophoridae stubs)
    Turbottoplectron is a genus of cave wētā in the family Rhaphidophoridae, endemic to New Zealand. Cook et al (2010) found that Gymnoplectron and Turbottoplectron...
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    Crux (insect) (category Rhaphidophoridae)
    Crux is a genus of cave wētā in the family Rhaphidophoridae. Two species are currently recognised, both of which are endemic to New Zealand. The name is...
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    (ant crickets) Hagloidea Prophalangopsidae (grigs) Rhaphidophoroidea Rhaphidophoridae (cave, camel and spider crickets; cave wetas) Schizodactyloidea Schizodactylidae...
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    Ceuthophilus hesperus (category Rhaphidophoridae stubs)
    San Diego camel cricket, is a species of camel cricket in the family Rhaphidophoridae. It is found in North America. These 10 subspecies belong to the species...
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  • Setascutum (category Rhaphidophoridae stubs)
    Setascutum is a genus of cave wētā in the family Rhaphidophoridae, endemic to New Zealand. Setascutum ohauense Richards, 1972 Setascutum pallidum Richards...
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    Schizodactylidae and Grylloidea were shown to be sister taxa, and Rhaphidophoridae and Tettigoniidae were found to be more closely related to Grylloidea...
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    (ant crickets) Hagloidea Prophalangopsidae (grigs) Rhaphidophoroidea Rhaphidophoridae (cave, camel and spider crickets; cave wetas) Schizodactyloidea Schizodactylidae...
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  • Dolichopoda lycia (category Rhaphidophoridae)
    Dolichopoda lycia is a species of cave cricket within the family Rhaphidophoridae. The species is found around caves around Antalya, Turkey. "Dolichopoda...
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    Diestrammena (category Rhaphidophoridae)
    Diestrammena is a 'camel' or 'cave-cricket' genus in the family Rhaphidophoridae. Species in the genus are native to Asia, including Japan. Note: this...
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  • other families, such as Stenopelmatidae ("Jerusalem crickets") and Rhaphidophoridae ("camel crickets"), now considered separate. As presently defined,...
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  • Talitropsis (category Rhaphidophoridae stubs)
    Talitropsis is a genus of cave wētā in the family Rhaphidophoridae, endemic to New Zealand, and containing six described species. Two Talitropsis species...
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  • Dendroplectron (category Rhaphidophoridae stubs)
    aucklandensis the Auckland Island wētā, is a cave wētā in the family Rhaphidophoridae, the only member of the genus Dendroplectron. It is endemic to the...
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  • Ceuthophilus californianus (category Rhaphidophoridae stubs)
    Ceuthophilus californianus is a species in the family Rhaphidophoridae ("camel crickets"), in the order Orthoptera ("grasshoppers, crickets, katydids")...
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    Pleioplectron (category Rhaphidophoridae stubs)
    Pleioplectron is a genus of cave wētā in the family Rhaphidophoridae, endemic to New Zealand. These wētā are fairly common at night among the leaf litter...
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  • Ceuthophilus arizonensis (category Rhaphidophoridae stubs)
    Arizona camel cricket, is a species of camel cricket in the family Rhaphidophoridae. It is found in North America. "Ceuthophilus arizonensis Report". Integrated...
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    Udeopsylla (category Rhaphidophoridae)
    Udeopsylla is a genus of camel crickets in the family Rhaphidophoridae. It is monotypic, being represented by the single species Udeopsylla robusta. "Udeopsylla...
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  • Ceuthophilus alpinus (category Rhaphidophoridae stubs)
    Ceuthophilus alpinus is a species of camel crickets in the family Rhaphidophoridae. It is found in North America. "Ceuthophilus alpinus Species Information"...
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  • Micropathus (category Rhaphidophoridae)
    Micropathus tasmaniensis Richards, 1964 Richards, Aola M. (1964). "The Rhaphidophoridae (Orthoptera) of Australia, 1: Tasmania" (PDF). Pacific Insects. 6:...
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  • Petrotettix (category Rhaphidophoridae stubs)
    Petrotettix is a genus of cave wētā in the family Rhaphidophoridae, endemic to New Zealand. Petrotettix cupolensis Richards, 1972 Petrotettix nigripes...
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  • Daihiniella (category Rhaphidophoridae)
    Daihiniella is a genus of sand-treader crickets in the family Rhaphidophoridae. There is one described species in Daihiniella, D. bellicosa. "Daihiniella...
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