''Dolichopoda azami'', the Azam's cave-cricket, is a species of cave cricket within the family Rhaphidophoridae. The species distribution is in

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in the Southern Alps and in

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Piedmont it, Piemontese , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = , demographics1_footnotes = , demographics1_title1 = , demographics1_info1 = , demographics1_title2 ...

Liguria Liguria (; lij, Ligûria ; french: Ligurie) is a Regions of Italy, region of north-western Italy; its Capital city, capital is Genoa. Its territory is crossed by the Alps and the Apennine Mountains, Apennines Mountain chain, mountain range and is ...

and Lombardia, where it lives in various dark habitats that have stable temperatures and high humidity. Such habitats include rocky forests,

cave A cave or cavern is a natural void in the ground, specifically a space large enough for a human to enter. Caves often form by the weathering of rock and often extend deep underground. The word ''cave'' can refer to smaller openings such as sea ...

s, damaged

bridge A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or rail) without blocking the way underneath. It is constructed for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle, which is usually somethi ...

s or aqueducts, and abandoned/disused buildings at

elevation The elevation of a geographic location is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § Vert ...

s of 120 to 1,940 metres. It lives in these habitats during the day and is primarily active at night. ''Dolichopoda azami'' has been assessed as '

Least concern A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of species conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild. T ...

' by the

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as it has no known major threats, is common, and occurs in at least 1

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. Direct human threats on the species are rare and are believed to not severely impact the species population.

Subspecies

* ''Dolichopoda azami azami'' (Found in southeastern France) * ''Dolichopoda azami ligustica'' (Found in southern Piedmont, north-western Liguria, and the French part of Roya valley) * ''Dolichopoda azami septentrionalis'' (Found in a small area in

Lanzo valley The Lanzo Valleys (in Italian ''Valli di Lanzo'', in Piedmontese ''Valade ëd Lans'') is a group of valleys in the north-west of Piedmont in the Metropolitan City of Turin, Italy. Etymology The valleys take their name from the city of Lanzo, whic ...

, easternmost caves close to

Bergamo Bergamo (; lmo, Bèrghem ; from the proto- Germanic elements *''berg +*heim'', the "mountain home") is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como ...

, and close to

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...

)

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q10475490 Insects described in 1893 Rhaphidophoridae IUCN Red List least concern species Fauna of France Fauna of Italy