Ceuthophilus
Ceuthophilus | |
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Ceuthophilus sp. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Orthoptera |
Suborder: | Ensifera |
Family: | Rhaphidophoridae |
Subfamily: | Ceuthophilinae |
Genus: | Ceuthophilus Scudder, 1862 |
Ceuthophilus is a genus of insects in the cave cricket family Rhaphidophoridae. It contains most of the species that are known commonly as camel crickets.[1]
These insects have thick, dorsally arched bodies. The head is oval in shape with long, tapering antennae. The hind femur is thick and usually spiny in males, and sometimes slightly spiny in females.[2]
Ceuthophilus have varied diets and have been described as omnivores and scavengers. Items observed in the diets of Ceuthophilus species include jelly, tuna, rancid liver, American cheese, pet food, oatmeal, wheat germ, peanut butter, molasses, wild fungi, persimmon, bread, dead and living insects, insect eggs, arachnids, dead bats, dead ring-tailed cats, and human feces.[3]
Species include:[4]
- Hubbell, 1936
- Ceuthophilus agassizii (Scudder, 1861)
- Ceuthophilus alpinus Scudder, 1894
- Hubbell, 1936
- Bruner, 1904
- Ceuthophilus arizonensis Scudder, 1894
- Hubbell, 1936
- Hubbell, 1936
- Ceuthophilus brevipes Scudder, 1862
- Strohecker, 1951
- Ceuthophilus californianus Scudder, 1862
- Caudell, 1924
- Hubbell, 1936
- Ceuthophilus caudelli Hubbell, 1936
- Ceuthophilus chiricahuae Hubbell, 1936
- Ceuthophilus conicaudus Hubbell, 1936
- Hubbell, 1929
- Hubbell, 1936
- Barnum, 1964
- Ceuthophilus divergens Scudder, 1862
- Ceuthophilus elegans Hubbell, 1934
- Packer, 1881
- Hubbell, 1936
- Ceuthophilus fossor Hubbell, 1936
- Ceuthophilus fusiformis Scudder, 1894
- (Saussure & Pictet, 1897)
- Hubbell, 1936
- Ceuthophilus gracilipes (Haldeman, 1850)
- Ceuthophilus guttulosus Walker, 1869
- Ceuthophilus hebardi Hubbell, 1936
- Ceuthophilus hesperus Hubbell, 1936
- Hubbell, 1936
- Hebard, 1939
- Ceuthophilus inyo Hubbell, 1936
- Hubbell, 1936
- Hubbell, 1936
- Rehn, 1907
- (Burmeister, 1838)
- Ceuthophilus latens Scudder, 1862
- Scudder, 1894
- Scudder, 1894
- Strohecker, 1947
- Caudell, 1924
- Ceuthophilus maculatus (Harris, 1835)
- Ceuthophilus meridionalis Scudder, 1894
- Hubbell, 1936
- Ceuthophilus mississippi Hubbell, 1936
- Hubbell, 1936
- Barnum, 1964
- Hubbell, 1936
- Ceuthophilus nodulosus Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888
- Scudder, 1894
- Hubbell, 1936
- Hubbell, 1936
- Bruner, 1891
- Ceuthophilus pallidipes Walker, 1905
- Hubbell, 1936
- Ceuthophilus paucispinosus Rehn, 1905
- Rehn & Hebard, 1914
- Hubbell, 1936
- Hubbell, 1936
- Hubbell, 1936
- Hubbell, 1936
- Hubbell, 1936
- Hubbell, 1936
- Ceuthophilus seclusus Scudder, 1894
- Ceuthophilus secretus Scudder, 1894
- Bruner, 1886
- Bruner, 1886
- Scudder, 1894
- Ceuthophilus stygius (Scudder, 1861)
- Scudder, 1894
- Hubbell, 1936
- Ceuthophilus uhleri Scudder, 1862
- Hubbell, 1936
- Hubbell, 1936
- Hubbell, 1936
- Ceuthophilus utahensis Thomas, 1876
- Scudder, 1894
- Hubbell, 1936
- Rehn & Hebard, 1905
- Hubbell, 1929
- Hubbell, 1936
- Hubbell, 1936
- Hubbell, 1936
- Ceuthophilus williamsoni Hubbell, 1934
- Ceuthophilus yavapai Hubbell, 1936
References[]
- ^ Sanders, D. House-invading Crickets. Archived 2013-09-27 at the Wayback Machine University of Missouri Extension. 2010.
- ^ Kirby, W. R. Key to Subfamilies of North American Rhaphidophoridae: Subfamily Rhaphidophorinae.
- ^ Taylor, S. J., et al. (2005). Foraging range and habitat use of Ceuthophilus secretus (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae), a key trogloxene in central Texas cave communities. Archived 2012-10-30 at the Wayback Machine The American Midland Naturalist 154(1) 97-114.
- ^ Cigliano, M. M.; Braun, H.; Eades, D. C.; Otte, D. "genus Ceuthophilus Scudder, 1862". orthoptera.speciesfile.org. Orthoptera Species File. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
Further reading[]
- Taylor, S. J., et al. Phylogeography of cave crickets (Ceuthophilus spp.) in central Texas: A keystone taxon for the conservation and management of federally listed endangered cave arthropods.[permanent dead link] Illinois Natural History Survey Technical Report 2007.
- Ceuthophilus
- Ensifera genera
- Orthoptera of North America
- Insects described in 1862