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19 Records
Status
"Apparently originally native to Japan, and/or the Indochina Peninsula in southern Asia. Introduced into the northeastern U.S... and now found in states surrounding New York City" (BugGuide). First MBP record from Harford Co. in January 2019 (D. Webb, det. B. Woo). More at BugGuide.
Description
Compare Greenhouse Camel Cricket (Diestrammena asynamora). To differentiate between these two similar species, Brandon Woo points out that "D. asynamora ... tends to have a more reddish brown base color as opposed to the paler tan base color of D. japanica. The black markings of D. japanica are also more well defined, even the markings that it shares with D. asynamora." These two features help give D. japanica an overall darker appearance. Epps also notes that D. japanica has fewer tibial spines (approximately 30, compared to D. asynamora's 60 spines). After studying all of BugGuide's photos of these two species, we find the most helpful distinction to be the presence of two dark lines running along the dorsal ridge of the pronotum that is present in D. japanica, but not in D. asynamora. (D. Webb, pers. comm.)
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Source: Wikipedia
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Ensifera |
| Family: | Rhaphidophoridae |
| Genus: | Diestrammena |
| Species: | D. japanica
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| Binomial name | |
| Diestrammena japanica Blatchley, 1920
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| Synonyms | |
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Diestrammena naganoensis Diestrammena marmorata | |
The Japanese camel cricket, Diestrammena japanica is a species of camel cricket native to Japan. Outside of its native range, specifically in the eastern United States, it is recognized as an invasive species.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Epps, MJ (2014). "Too big to be noticed: cryptic invasion of Asian camel crickets in North American houses". PeerJ. 2: e523. doi:10.7717/peerj.523. PMC 4157299. PMID 25210654.