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Orthoptera Species File
Genus

Ammopelmatus Tinkham, 1965

Type

type species by original designation of Ammopelmatus Tinkham, 1965

Nomenclature (12)

  • Ammopelmatus Tinkham, 1965: 64.

    type species by original designation Ammopelmatus kelsoensis Tinkham, 1965

  • Viscainopelmatus Tinkham, 1970: 175.

    type species by original designation or monotypy Viscainopelmatus davewerneri Tinkham, 1970

  • Viscainopelmatus Tinkham, 1970 (subjective synonym of Ammopelmatus Tinkham, 1965) in Weissman, Vandergast, Song, Shin, McKenna & Ueshima, 2021: 20.
  • Ammopelmatus Tinkham, 1965 in Weissman, Weissman, Vandergast, Ueshima, Warchalowska-Sliwa & Song, 2026

References (9)

  • Tinkham, E.R. (1965) Studies in Neartic desert sand dune Orthoptera. Part X. A new genus and species of stenopelmatine crickets from the Kelso Dunes with notes on its multi-annual life history and key. The Great Basin Naturalist, 25(3-4), 63–72. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33525#page/79/mode/1up
  • Tinkham, E.R. (1970) Studies in Nearctic desert sand dune Orthoptera. Part XII. The Great Basin Naturalist, 30(3), 173–179. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33893#page/201/mode/1up
  • Tinkham, E.R., Mahrdt, C.R. & Banta, B.H. (1974) Notes on Viscainopelmatus davewerneri (Orthoptera: Gryllacrididae, Stenopelmatinae) from the Viscaino desert, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The Great Basin Naturalist, 34, 203–206. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33390#page/223/mode/1up
  • Rentz, D.C.F. & Weissman, D.B. (1981) Faunal affinities, systematics, and bionomics of the Orthoptera of the California Channel Islands. University of California Publications in Entomology, 94, vii-xiii, 1–240. Available at https://orthsoc.org/sina/i00lrw81.pdf
  • Rentz, J.B. & Rentz, D.C.F. (1987) The chromosomes of four endemic Australian fossorial orthopterans: a study in convergence and homology. Bulletin of the Sugadaira Montane Research Center, 8, 205–216. Available at http://www.tulips.tsukuba.ac.jp/limedio/dlam/M41/M414358/23.pdf
  • Gorochov, A.V. (1995) System and evolution of the suborder Ensifera (Orthoptera). Part I. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 260, 1–224. [in Russian]
  • Otte, D. (2000) Orthoptera Species File 8. Gryllacrididae, Stenopelmatidae, Cooloolidae, Schizodactylidae, Anastostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 97 pp.
  • Weissman, D.B., Vandergast, A.G., Song, H., Shin, S., McKenna, D.D. & Ueshima, N. (2021) Generic relationships of New World Jerusalem crickets (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatoidea: Stenopelmatinae), including all known species of Stenopelmatus. Zootaxa, 4917(1), 1–122.
  • 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:

Derived from Greek ἄμμος, sand, and Stenopelmatus Burmeister, 1838, in reference to the adaptation to an arenicolous or ammophilous environment.

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Genus1012
Species124022146