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family

Rhaphidophoridae Walker, 1869

Buckelschrecken; Höhlenschrecken; camel crickets; cave crickets; Cave wētā

Type

Rhaphidophora Serville, 1838 type genus of Rhaphidophoridae Walker, 1869

Nomenclature (57)

  • Rhaphidophoridae Walker, 1869

    type genus Rhaphidophora Serville, 1838

  • Raphidophoridae [sic] Walker, 1869: 254.

    type genus Rhaphidophora Serville, 1838

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  • Rhaphidophoridae Walker, 1869 in Hegg, Morgan-Richards & Trewick, 2022: 2.
  • Rhaphidophoridae Walker, 1869 in Kim, Kim, Song & Shin, 2024

Nomenclature references (49)

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  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1888) Monographie der Stenopelmatiden und Gryllacriden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 38, 247–394, pls. 5–9. Available at http://www.zobodat.at/pdf/VZBG_38_0247-0394.pdf
  • Carchini, G., Rampini, M., Severini, C. & Sbordoni, V. (1983) Population size estimates of four species of Dolichopoda in natural and artificial caves of central Italy (Orthoptera: Raphidophoridae). Mémoires de Biospéologie, 10, 341–347.
  • Defaut, B. (2001) Actualisation taxonomique et nomenclaturale du "Synopsis des orthoptères de France". Matériaux Orthoptériques et Entomocénotiques, 6, 107–112.
  • Defaut, B. (2001) In La détermination des Orthoptères de France. Bedeilhac. 85 pp.
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  • Gorochov, A.V. (1988) System and phylogeny of the recent Orthoptera of the superfamilies Hagloidea and Stenopelmatoidea with a description of new taxa. Communication 1. Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal, 67(3), 353–366. Available at http://gryllus.smart21.ru/gryllus/Gorochov%27s%20papers%20in%20PDF%20and%20list%20of%20his%20publications/1988%20%2837-45%29/40%20System%20and%20phylogeny%20recent%20Hagloidea%20Stenopelmatoidea%20part%201%20%28russian%29%201988.pdf
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  • Gorochov, A.V. (1995) System and evolution of the suborder Ensifera (Orthoptera). Part II. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 260, 1–213. [in Russian]
  • Gorochov, A.V. (2001) The higher classification, phylogeny and evolution of the superfamily Stenopelmatoidea. In The Biology of Wetas, King Crickets and their Allies. Wallingford. pp. 3–33.
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  • Hegg, D., Morgan-Richards, M. & Trewick, S.A. (2022) High alpine sorcerers: revision of the cave wētā genus Pharmacus Pictet & de Saussure (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: Macropathinae), with the description of six new species and three new subspecies. European Journal of Taxonomy, 808, 1–58. Available at http://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/1721
  • Hu, C.-Y., Yang, J.-T. & Tu, W.-C. (2011) Antennal epicuticular structure of camel crickets (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae) for identifying the prey of Mustella sibrica Pallas. Advances in Entomology, 2, 1–7. Available at http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=41786#.VLAdtXtTucU
  • Hubbell, T.H. (1978) Part 1. A revision of the rhaphidophorid tribe Hadenoecini. In Miscellaneous Publications Museum of Zoology University of Michigan. Vol. 156, pp. 6–79. Available at http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/56400
  • Ichikawa, A. (1997) Camel crickets (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae) of Japan, including the Ryukyu Islands. Bulletin of the Hoshizaki Green Foundation, 1, 67–76.
  • Karaman, Z. (1958) Die Höhlenarthropoden Jugoslawiens. Jahrbuch der Land- und Forstwirtschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität in Skopje, 11, 211–238. [1957]
  • Kevan, D.K.M.E. (1982) Orthoptera. In Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill Book Company. Vol. 2, pp. 352–379.
  • Kim, D.-Y., Kim, S., Song, H. & Shin, S. (2024) Phylogeny and biogeography of the wingless orthopteran family Rhaphidophoridae. Communications Biology, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06068-x
  • Kim, J.-I. & Kim, T.-W. (2002) Taxonomic study of Korean Stenopelmatoidea (Orthoptera: Ensifera). Korean Journal of Entomology, 32(3), 141–151.
  • Kirby, W.F. (1906) Orthoptera Saltatoria. Part I. (Achetidae et Phasgonuridae). In A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London. Vol. 2, i-viii, 1–562. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29662
  • Kočárek, P., Holusa, J. & Vidlicka, L. (2005) In Blattaria, Mantodea, Orthoptera & Dermaptera Ceské a Slovenské republiky. Kabourek, Zlin, Czech Republic. . 1–348 pp.
  • Leubner, F., Hörnschemeyer, T. & Bradler, S. (2016) The thorax of the cave cricket Troglophilus neglectus: anatomical adaptations in an ancient wingless insect lineage (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 16(39), 19 pp. Available at http://https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-016-0612-5
  • Liu, X.-W. & Zhang, W. (2001) Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea, Rhahidophoroidea and Gryllacridoidea. In Insects of Tianmushan National Nature Reserve. Science Press, Beijing. 90–102 pp.
  • Massa, B., Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M., Kleukers, R.M.J.C. & Odé, B. (2012) In Fauna d'Italia. Orthoptera. Calderini, Bologna. Vol. 48, 563 pp.
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  • Richards, A.M. (1965) The effect of weather on Rhaphidophoridae (Orthoptera) in New Zealand and Australia. Annales de Spéléologie. Annales de Spéléologie, 20(3), 391–400.
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  • Storozhenko, S.Y. (2004) In Long-horned orthopterans (Orthoptera: Ensifera) of the Asiatic part of Russia. Dalnauka, Vladivostok. 280 pp. [in Russian]
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  • Sugimoto, M. & Ichikawa, A. (2003) Review of Rhaphidophoridae (excluding Protrogrophilinae) (Orthoptera) of Japan. Tettigonia: Memoirs of the Orthopterological Society of Japan, 5, 1–48.
  • Szijj, J. (2004) In Die Springschrecken Europas. Westarp. 176 pp.
  • Tepper, J.G.O. (1892) The Gryllacrididae and Stenopelmatidae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 15, 137–178. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54689#page/145/mode/1up
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Descendants and synonyms

Life zone and ecology data

Terrestrial. Carnivorous and omnivorous species.

Stats

Names
Rank Total Valid Invalid
family413
subfamily241014
tribe18126
infratribe110
genus1249331
subgenus472621
supersuperspecies990
superspecies34331
species1522910612
subspecies1486880