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Subfamily Aemodogryllinae

Camel Cricket - Diestrammena asynamora - female Camel Cricket - Diestrammena asynamora - female Jumper Extraordinaire found in my bed 5 minutes after I got up! - Diestrammena asynamora Greenhouse Camel Cricket - Diestrammena asynamora - female Large unidentified insect  - Diestrammena japanica - female Diestrammena asynamora? - Diestrammena asynamora - female Cricket - Diestrammena asynamora Japanese Camel Cricket - Diestrammena japanica
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
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
tribe Aemodogryllini Jacobson, 1905. Based on genus Aemodogryllus Adelung (now treated as a subgenus of Diestrammena Brunner)
tribe Diestramimini Gorochov, 1998. Based on genus Diestramima Storozhenko
subfamily Aemodogryllinae (Jacobson) Otte, 2000
Numbers
Twelve genera. One non-native genus with two species in North America
Identification
Long slender legs with fine even-sized spines along hind tibiae, and with long spurs at the tips of front and middle femora. Fastigium of head divided into two points.
Range
Southern and eastern Asia south through most of Indonesia. Adventive in other parts of the world.