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Hadenoecus cumberlandicus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Orthoptera |
Suborder: | Ensifera |
Family: | Rhaphidophoridae |
Tribe: | Hadenoecini |
Genus: | Hadenoecus |
Species: | H. cumberlandicus
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Binomial name | |
Hadenoecus cumberlandicus Hubbell & Norton, 1978
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Hadenoecus cumberlandicus, [1] the Cumberland cave cricket, is a species of camel cricket in the family Rhaphidophoridae. It is found in North America. [2] [3] [4]
The Cumberland cave cricket aggregates into groups or clusters within cave wall recesses and is considered vital to cave community ecosystems, noted as a keystone species. [5] The crickets aggregate to minimize dehydration using specialized pheromones that reduce mobility on contact, acting as an anti-predator defense tactic from cave spiders. It has been found to have a co-occurrence relationship with the cave orb weaver spider Meta ovalis. Some populations of H. cumberlandicus are parthenogenic. [6]
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