Rhaphidophorinae

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Rhaphidophorinae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Rhaphidophoridae
Subfamily: Rhaphidophorinae
Walker, 1869

The subfamily Rhaphidophorinae [1] contains the single tribe of camel crickets, the Rhaphidophorini, based on the type genus Rhaphidophora .

Contents

Species can be found in: India, southern China, Japan, Indo-China, Malesia and Australasia.

Genera

The Orthoptera Species File [2] lists:

  1. Diarhaphidophora Gorochov, 2012
  2. Eurhaphidophora Gorochov, 1999
  3. Minirhaphidophora Gorochov, 2002
  4. Neorhaphidophora Gorochov, 1999
  5. Pararhaphidophora – monotypic: Pararhaphidophora anatoliji Gorochov, 1999
  6. Rhaphidophora Serville, 1838
  7. Sinorhaphidophora Qin, Jiang, Liu & Li, 2018 – monotypic: Sinorhaphidophora hainanensis (Bian & Shi, 2016)
  8. Stonychophora Karny, 1934

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References

  1. Walker F (1871) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum Supplement: 99.
  2. Orthoptera Species File (version 5.0: retrieved 6 September 2022)