cave cricket

English

A cave cricket

Noun

cave cricket (plural cave crickets)

1. Any cricket of the family Rhaphidophoridae.

Synonyms

• rhaphidophorid
• camel cricket, spider cricket, camelback cricket, sand treader
• crider, spricket, land shrimp (informal)

Hyponyms

• (cricket in Paphidophoridae): cave weta (Australia)

Translations

Member of Rhaphidophoridae

• Cherokee: ᏏᎩᏥᏍᎩ (sigitsisgi)
• German: Höhlenschrecke f
• Russian: пеще́рный кузне́чик m (peščérnyj kuznéčik), пеще́рник (ru) m (peščérnik), рафидофори́д m (rafidoforíd)

Further reading

• cave cricket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rhaphidophoridae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Rhaphidophoridae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons