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Genus Daihinia

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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 Ceuthophilinae
Genus Daihinia
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Daihinia Haldeman, 1850. As subgenus of Phalangopsis. Type species: Phalangopsis brevipes Haldeman
Daihinia (Haldeman) Girard, 1854. As genus
Numbers
One species
Range
Sand areas on the Great Plains in Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and likely adjacent Plains states to the north and south.
Habitat
Live in burrows in sand (mostly sand dune areas) and come out to feed on surface at night.
Food
Omnivorous / predatory scavengers, will feed on a wide variety of plant and animal foods.