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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