Azam's cave-cricket
Dolichopoda azami
Azam's cave-cricket is a cave cricket from the mountains of France and Italy. It likes dark, damp places where the temperature stays the same, like caves and old buildings. It hides by day and comes out at night.
Lives in
The southern Alps of France and northwestern Italy
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It does not bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Cave crickets like it eat all kinds of bits they find in the dark, from plant scraps to dead insects.
How fast is it?
Azam's cave-cricket about 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It lives in caves, rocky forests, old bridges, aqueducts and empty buildings.
2
It has been found from 120 metres up to 1,940 metres high.
3
Scientists divide it into three subspecies, each living in its own area.
4
It is common and not in danger, so it is listed as Least Concern.
you asked
Most asked questions about Azam's cave-cricket
?Where does Azam's cave-cricket live?
In dark, damp places like caves and old buildings in southern France and northern Italy.
?When is Azam's cave-cricket active?
Mostly at night. It hides during the day.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Dolichopoda azami
- Named by
- Saulcy, 1893
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Rhaphidophoridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Rhaphidophoridae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Dolichopoda azami (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Gilles San Martin from Namur, Belgium. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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