Aemodogryllinae
Jacobson, 1905
camel crickets
Genus Guides
1- Diestrammena(Asian camel cricket)
Aemodogryllinae is a of Rhaphidophoridae (cave crickets or camel crickets) containing approximately sixteen . Members are (wingless) and predominantly inhabit dark, humid microhabitats including caves, stone crevices, and karst formations. The subfamily exhibits a disjunct distribution: tribe Aemodogryllini occurs in Europe and Asia (Korea, Russia, China, Indochina), while tribe Diestramimini is restricted to India, southern China, and Indochina. The greenhouse camel cricket (Diestrammena asynamora) is and .



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Habitat
Dark humid environments including caves, karst formations, stone crevices, and dry leaf litter; primarily tropical and subtropical mountainous and hilly areas. Multiple are explicitly cavernicolous, including Tachycines (Gymnaeta), Tamdaotettix, and Diestramima.
Distribution
Europe; Asia including Korea, Russia, China, Indochina, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Japan. Tribe Aemodogryllini: Europe and Asia (Korea, Indochina, Russia, China). Tribe Diestramimini: India, southern China, Indochina. Atachycines and Neotachycines (incertae sedis): Borneo, Indochina, Japan. The greenhouse camel cricket (Diestrammena) is .
Behavior
(wingless); gregarious in some . Strong dependence on geographical isolation for speciation and structure. Limited capacity due to winglessness makes these insects useful biogeographic indicators.
Human Relevance
The greenhouse camel cricket (Diestrammena asynamora) is a associated with human structures.
Sources and further reading
- BugGuide
- Wikipedia
- iNaturalist taxon
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Catalogue of Life
- Remarks on the genus Tamdaotettix Gorochov, 1998 (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: Aemodogryllinae) from China
- Phylogenetic relationship and biogeography of the genus Diestramima, a cave cricket endemic to the Oriental realm (Rhaphidophoridae: Aemodogryllinae)
- Phylogenetic relationship and biogeography of the genus Diestramima, a cave cricket endemic to the Oriental realm (Rhaphidophoridae: Aemodogryllinae)
- New and little-known taxa of the tribe Diestramimini (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: Aemodogryllinae) from Southeast Asia. Part 2
- New and little-known taxa of the tribe Diestramimini (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: Aemodogryllinae) from Southeast Asia. Part 1
- Three new cave species of the subgenus Tachycines (Gymnaeta) (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: Aemodogryllinae) from northern Guizhou, China
- Report of a new genus Arboramima belonging to tribe Diestramimini, with a new species A. cattusis from Guangxi, China (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: Aemodogryllinae)
- New data on the genus Megadiestramima Storozhenko & Gorochov, 1992 (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae: Aemodogryllinae), with descriptions of a new subgenus and a new species from Thailand
- Ten new species of genus Tachycines (Orthoptera, Rhaphidophoridae, Aemodogryllinae) from karst caves in Guizhou, China.