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Ammopelmatus mescaleroensis (Tinkham, 1979)

Southwest Sand Dune Jerusalem Cricket

Nomenclature (7)

  • Stenopelmatus mescaleroensis Tinkham, 1979: 226.

    Neotype; male; CAS Entomology type 20065; deposited at: California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California (CASC); United States: New Mexico: Chaves: Mescalero Sands

  • Stenopelmatus mescaleroensis Tinkham, 1979 in Weissman, 2001: 58.
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  • Stenopelmatus monahansensis Stidham & Stidham, 2001 (subjective synonym of Stenopelmatus mescaleroensis Tinkham, 1979) in Weissman, Weissman, Vandergast, Ueshima, Warchalowska-Sliwa & Song, 2026: 500, 739.
  • Ammopelmatus mescaleroensis (Tinkham, 1979) in Weissman, Weissman, Vandergast, Ueshima, Warchalowska-Sliwa & Song, 2026: 500.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Stidham, T.A. & Stidham, J.A. (2001) A new species of Jerusalem cricket (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae) from Texas. Southwestern Entomologist, 26(3), 221–226.
  • Tinkham, E.R. (1979) Studies in Nearctic desert sand dune Orthoptera. Part XVI. A new black Stenopelmatus from the Mescalero Sands. The Great Basin Naturalist, 39(3), 226–230. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33879#page/250/mode/1up
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  • 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:

Named after the Mescalero Sand Dunes, the type locality.

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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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