species

Ammopelmatus muwu Rentz & Weissman, 1981

Port Conception Jerusalem Cricket

Nomenclature (4)

Ammopelmatus muwu Rentz & Weissman, 1981: 116.
Holotype; CAS Entomology type 12428; deposited at: California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California (CASC); United States: California: Santa Barbara: Point Conception, Bixby Ranch, dunes near lighthouse
Ammopelmatus muwu Rentz & Weissman, 1981 in Rentz & Rentz, 1987: 209.

Ammopelmatus muwu Rentz & Weissman, 1981 in Hoekstra, 1998: 180.
Ammopelmatus muwu Rentz & Weissman, 1981 in Weissman, Weissman, Vandergast, Ueshima, Warchalowska-Sliwa & Song, 2026: 567.

Hoekstra, J.M. (1998) Conserving Orthoptera in the wild: lessons from Trimerotropis infantilis (Oedipodinae). Journal of Insect Conservation, 2(3-4), 179–185.
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
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

Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

The name is derived from that given to sand dunes by the Chumash Indians who lived along coastal southern California.

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
species	1	0	0	1