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Ammopelmatus cahuilaensis (Tinkham, 1968)

Coachella Valley Jerusalem Cricket

Nomenclature (8)

  • Stenopelmatus cahuilaensis Tinkham, 1968: 125.

    Holotype; male; CAS Entomology type 16451; deposited at: California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California (CASC); United States: California: Riverside: Palm Springs Depot; dunes at north base of mountains 0.5 mi S of depot across wash

  • Stenopelmatus cahuilaensis Tinkham, 1968 in Hoekstra, 1998: 181.
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  • Ammopelmatus cahuilaensis (Tinkham, 1968) in Weissman, Weissman, Vandergast, Ueshima, Warchalowska-Sliwa & Song, 2026: 425.
  • Stenopelmatus coahuilensis [sic] (Tinkham, 1968) (misspelling of Stenopelmatus cahuilaensis Tinkham, 1968)

Nomenclature references (7)

  • Hoekstra, J.M. (1998) Conserving Orthoptera in the wild: lessons from Trimerotropis infantilis (Oedipodinae). Journal of Insect Conservation, 2(3-4), 179–185.
  • 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.
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  • Prentice, T.R., Redak, R.A. & Barrows, C.W. (2011) Survey methodology and distribution of a cryptic Jerusalem cricket species, Stenopelmatus cahuilaensis Tinkham (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae: Stenopelmatinae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 87(1), 1–14.
  • Tinkham, E.R. (1968) Studies in Nearctic desert sand dune Orthoptera. Part XI. A new arenicolous species of Stenopelmatus from Coachella Valley with key and biological notes. The Great Basin Naturalist, 28, 124–131. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33883#page/140/mode/1up
  • Weissman, D.B. (2001) North and Central American Jerusalem Crickets (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae): taxonomy, distribution, life cycle, ecology and related biology of the American species. In The Biology of Wetas, King Crickets and their Allies. Wallingford. pp. 57–72.
  • 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:

Cahuilla is the name of the Native American tribe that did (and to a lesser extent still does) occupy the greater Coachella Valley region. Coachella is an artifact of the misspelling of Conchilla (Spanish for little shells) which was a description on one of the original Spanish maps of this region, referring to little shells littering the ground within the lake bed of what is now the Salton Sea, but what geologists have named Lake Cahuilla—the prehistoric lake that occupied the Salton Trough/Basin.

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