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Japanese Camel Cricket

Diestrammena japanica

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
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27 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in New York.January 28, February 28, March 37, April 65, May 112, June 55, July 67, August 59, September 44, October 40, November 28, December 25.
United States1,278
New York540
Connecticut235
New Jersey199
Japan165
Massachusetts130
Pennsylvania122
Nagano50
Canada43
Ontario43

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderGrasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids · Orthoptera
FamilyCamel Crickets, Cave Crickets, and Cave Wēta · Rhaphidophoridae
GenusDiestrammena

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Japanese Camel Cricket with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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