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Ammopelmatus ashleighi Weissman, 2026

UCLA Jerusalem Cricket

Nomenclature (1)

  • Ammopelmatus ashleighi Weissman, 2026 in Weissman, Weissman, Vandergast, Ueshima, Warchalowska-Sliwa & Song, 2026: 402.

    Holotype; male; CAS Entomology type 20183; deposited at: California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California (CASC); United States: California: San Bernardino: Lake Arrowhead, UCLA Bruin Woods

Nomenclature references (1)

  • Weissman, D.B., Weissman, D.W., Vandergast, A.G., Ueshima, N., Warchalowska-Sliwa, E. & Song, H. (2026) Massive radiation in Ammopelmatus Jerusalem crickets (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatoidea: Stenopelmatinae): Phylogenomics, revision, and biology of 105 new species from the United States and Mexico. Zootaxa, 5776(1), 1–775. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5776.1.1

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

Named after Ashleigh Weissman Wood who had many pleasurable summers at UCLA’s Bruin Woods family summer camp.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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