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family Rhaphidophoridae Walker, 1869

• Nomenclatural details:   Justified emendation
• Common name(s):  camel crickets; cave crickets; Buckelschrecken; Höhlenschrecken; Cave wētā
• Distribution:
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• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial. Carnivorous and omnivorous species.
• Citations (45):
  • Walker, F. 1871. Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum Supplement:99   >> Note: Rhaphidophoridae
  • Stål. 1876. Bihang Kungl. Svenska Vet. Akad. Handl. 4(5):49  
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl. 1888. Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien 38:256  
  • Kirby, W.F. 1906. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae) 2:123  
  • Ander. 1939. 7th Internat. Congr. Entom. 2:622 >> Note: Tettigonioidea: Rhaphidophoridae
  • Ander. 1939. Opuscula Entomologica 2(Suppl.):9
  • Salmon. 1948. Rec. Auckland Inst. Mus. 3:301
  • Karaman, Z. 1958[1957]. Jahrb. d. Land- u. Forstwirt. Fak. 11:214, 230
  • Richards, A.M. 1959. Trans. Roy. Soc. N. Zeal. 87:27, 319, 329  
  • Richards, A.M. 1961. Tuatara 9:80-83  
  • Richards, A.M. 1965. Ann. Spéléol. 20(3):391-400
  • Harz. 1969. Ser. Entomol. 5:622
  • Beier. 1972. Handbuch der Zoologie: Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches 4(2):12 >> Note: key to subfamilies
  • Hubbell. 1978. In Hubbell & R.M. Norton. The systematics and biology of the cave-crickets of the North American tribe Hadenoecini (Orthoptera Saltatoria: Ensifera: Rhaphidophoridae: Dolichopodinae). Misc. Publ. Univ. Mich. Mus. Zool. 156:6-8  
  • Kevan, D.K.M. 1982. In Parker [Ed.]. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms 2:355 >> Note: Rhaphidophoroidea: Rhaphidophoridae
  • Carchini, Rampini, Severini & Sbordoni. 1983. Mémoires de Biospéologie 10:341
  • Storozhenko. 1986. In Ler [Ed.]. Identification of insects of the Far East of the USSR in 6 volumes 1:260
  • Vickery & D.K.M. Kevan. 1986. The Insects and Arachnids of Canada 14:126  
  • Gorochov. 1988. Zool. Zhur. 67(3):361  
  • Rampini & Saltini. 1994[1993]. Boll. Zool. 61:1  
  • Gwynne. 1995. Jour. Orth. Res. 4:203-218
  • Gorochov. 1995. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 260:200, 203
  • Gorochov. 1995. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 260:34, 52, 62, 71, 104, 111, 135, 151, 165, 178
  • Ichikawa. 1997. Bulletin of the Hoshizaki Green Foundation 1:67-76
  • Di Russo & Sbordoni [Ed.]. 1998. Encyclopaedia biospeologica 2:979
  • Ward. 1998. New Zealand Nat. Sci. 23:14
  • Otte, D. 2000. Orthoptera Species File 8:52 >> Note: Rhaphidophoridae
  • Liu, X.-W. & Weinian Zhang. 2001. Insects of Tianmushan National Nature Reserve 96 >> Note: key to genera
  • Gorochov. 2001. In Field, L.H. [Ed.]. The Biology of Wetas, King Crickets and their Allies 14 >> Note: key to subfamilies
  • Defaut. 2001. La détermination des Orthoptères de France 6
  • Kim, J.I. & T.-W. Kim. 2002. Korean J. Entomol. 32(3):143
  • Sugimoto, M. & Ichikawa. 2003. Tettigonia 5:1 >> Note: key to subfamilies and genera
  • Desutter-Grandcolas. 2003. Zool. Scripta 32(6):538 >> Note: Rhaphidophoroidea: Rhaphidophoridae
  • Storozhenko. 2004. Long-horned orthopterans (Orthoptera: Ensifera) of the Asiatic part of Russia [in Russian] 32, 180 >> Note: Stenopelmatoidea: Rhaphidophoridae
  • Szijj. 2004. Die Springschrecken Europas 22, 57
  • Kocárek, J. Holusa & Vidlicka. 2005. Blattaria, Mantodea, Orthoptera & Dermaptera Ceské a Slovenské republiky 152
  • Picker, M., Griffiths & Weaving. 2005. Field Guide to Insects of Southern Africa 78
  • Storozhenko & Paik. 2007. Orthoptera of Korea 82 >> Note: key to genera and subfamilies
  • Hu, C.Y., Jeng-Tze Yang & W.C. Tu. 2011. Advances in Entomology 2:1-7  
  • Rampini & Di Russo. 2012. In Massa, Fontana, Buzzetti, Kleukers & Odé. Fauna d'Italia. Orthoptera 48:312
  • Massa, Fontana, Buzzetti, Kleukers & Odé. 2012. Fauna d'Italia. Orthoptera 48:312
  • Storozhenko, T.-W. Kim & Jeon. 2015. Monograph of Korean Orthoptera 92
  • Leubner, Hörnschemeyer & Bradler. 2016. BMC Evol. Bio. 16(39):19 pp.   >> Note: closer relationship to Tettigoniidae rather than to Gryllidae
  • Allegrucci & Sbordoni. 2019. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 138:126-138
  • Hegg, Morgan-Richards & Trewick. 2022. European Journal of Taxonomy 808:2  
• Type genus:  Rhaphidophora Serville, 1838; priority for family-group names based on Rhaphidophora dates from Raphidophoridae Walker, F., 1869.  First use as Rhaphidophoridae by Walker, F., 1871.

• synonym Raphidophorae Walker, 1869
• synonym Raphidophoridae Walker, 1869
• synonym Rhaphidophorae Walker, 1869
• subfamily Aemodogryllinae Jacobson, 1905
• tribe Aemodogryllini Jacobson, 1905
• tribe Diestramimini Gorochov, 1998
• genus Atachycines Furukawa, 1933
• genus Neotachycines Sugimoto & Ichikawa, 2003
• subfamily Anoplophilinae Storozhenko & Paik, 2010
• synonym Anoplophilini Storozhenko & Paik, 2010
• genus Alpinanoplophilus Ishikawa, 1993
• genus Anoplophilus Karny, 1931
• subfamily Ceuthophilinae Tepper, 1892
• synonym Ceutophilinae Di Russo & Sbordoni, 1998
• synonym Hadenoecinae Ander, 1939
• tribe Argyrtini Hubbell, 1977
• tribe Ceuthophilini Tepper, 1892
• tribe Daihiniini Karny, 1930
• tribe Hadenoecini Ander, 1939
• tribe Pristoceuthophilini Rehn, 1903
• genus Farallonophilus Rentz, 1972
• subfamily Dolichopodainae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888
• synonym Dolichopodinae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888
• synonym Dolichopodae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888
• synonym Dolichopodini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888
• tribe Dolichopodaini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888
• subfamily Gammarotettiginae Karny, 1937
• tribe Gammarotettigini Karny, 1937
• subfamily Macropathinae Karny, 1930
• synonym Macropathidae Karny, 1930
• synonym Talitropsidae Gorochov, 1988
• synonym Talitropsinae Gorochov, 1988
• tribe Macropathini Karny, 1930
• tribe Talitropsini Gorochov, 1988
• genus Dolichochaeta Philippi, 1863
• subfamily †Protroglophilinae Gorochov, 1989
• genus †Prorhaphidophora Chopard, 1936
• genus †Protroglophilus Gorochov, 1989
• subfamily Rhaphidophorinae Walker, 1869
• synonym Raphidophorinae
• tribe Rhaphidophorini Walker, 1869
• subfamily Troglophilinae Karny, 1930
• synonym Troglophilini Karny, 1930
• genus Troglophilus Krauss, 1879
• subfamily Tropidischiinae Scudder, 1897
• synonym Tropidischiae Scudder, 1897
• synonym Tropidischiini Scudder, 1897
• synonym Tropidischini Scudder, 1897
• genus Tropidischia Scudder, 1862

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