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Tachycines 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 cricket [1] or greenhouse stone cricket [2] for its propensity for living in greenhouses. [3]
Common names for these insects include cave crickets, camel crickets, spider crickets (sometimes shortened to "criders" or "sprickets"), [2] and sand treaders. Those occurring in New Zealand are typically referred to as jumping or cave wētā . [ 3 ]
Farallonophilus is a genus of camel crickets in the family Rhaphidophoridae. The only described species in the genus is Farallonophilus cavernicolus, also known as the Farallon cave cricket or the Farallon camel cricket, which is endemic to the Farallon Islands in California, United States. [1] It was first described by David C. Rentz in 1972.
The greenhouse camel cricket is an invasive species native to Asia, but findings in a study from North Carolina State University suggest they are now Foreign crickets invade US basements Skip to ...
Wētā is a loanword, from the Māori-language word wētā, which refers to this whole group of large insects; some types of wētā have a specific Māori name. [2] In New Zealand English, it is spelled either "weta" or "wētā", although the form with macrons is increasingly common in formal writing, as the Māori word weta (without macrons) instead means "filth or excrement". [3]
Ceuthophilus is a genus of insects in the cave cricket family Rhaphidophoridae. It contains most of the species that are known commonly as camel crickets. [1] These insects have thick, dorsally arched bodies. The head is oval in shape with long, tapering antennae. The hind femur is thick and usually spiny in males, and sometimes slightly spiny ...
Talitropsis sedilloti is a species of flightless wētā, in the family Rhaphidophoridae (cave crickets, cave wētā, or camel crickets), endemic to Aotearoa New Zealand. [1] This species is common in forests throughout New Zealand and during the day can be found hiding in holes in tree branches.
Tachycines [1] is a genus of camel crickets in the subfamily Aemodogryllinae and tribe Aemodogryllini. Some authorities had placed the type species, T. asynamorus, in the genus Diestrammena, but recent papers returned this to the subgenus Tachycines (Tachycines), [2] with a substantial number of new species recently described.