Genus Diestrammena

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Internet References

Camel Cricket - Diestrammena asynamora - female

Greenhouse Camel Cricket - Diestrammena asynamora - female

Greenhouse camel cricket - Diestrammena asynamora - Diestrammena asynamora - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)

Suborder Ensifera (Long-horned Orthoptera)

Infraorder Tettigoniidea (Katydids, Camel Crickets, and relatives)

Family Rhaphidophoridae (Camel Crickets)

Subfamily Aemodogryllinae

Genus Diestrammena

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Diestrammena Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888. Type species: Locusta marmorata DeHaan (= Diestrammena japanica) [subsequent designation by W.F. Kirby, 1906]

Aemodogryllus Adelung, 1902. Type species: Aemodogryllus brunneri Adelung

Gymnaeta Adelung, 1902. Type species: G. beresowskii Adelung [originally included species were G. beresowskii Adelung & G. gansuicus Adelung; the later now listed as a synonym of the first]

Tachycines Adelung, 1902. Type species: Tachycines asynamorus Adelung

Tachycines subgenus Gymnaeta (Adelung) Storozhenko, 1990

Diestrammena subgenus Gymnaeta (Adelung) Gorochov, 1994

Diestrammena subgenus Tachycines (Adelung) Gorochov, 1998

Diestrammena subgenus Aemodogryllus (Adelung) M. Sugimoto & Ichikawa, 2003

Numbers

72 species are listed at Orthoptera Species File.

Identification

Genus Diestrammena

1. legs are very long and slender

2. noticeably long spines at the tip of the front and middle femora

3. "horns" between the antennae that point down

4. except for the moveable spurs at the end of the hind tibia, all of the spines hind tibiae are very short

Tips from David Ferguson.

Range

A primarily eastern and southern Asian genus, with at least two species having been introduced into other parts of the world, notably Europe and North America.

Internet References

original description of Tachycines, Gymnaeta, and Aemodogryllus. 1902, Nicolai Adalung, 'Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Palaarctischen Stenopelmatiden (Orthoptera, Locustodea)'; Annuaire du Musee Zoologique de L'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St.-Petersbourg VII: 55-68

Diestrammena on Orthoptera Species File

Contributed by Jeffrey Cole on 27 December, 2007 - 4:04am
Additional contributions by Lynette Elliott, David Ferguson
Last updated 15 February, 2012 - 12:34am

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