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Ammopelmatus nigrocapitatus (Tinkham & Rentz, 1969)

Black-headed Jerusalem Cricket

Nomenclature (5)

  • Stenopelmatus nigrocapitatus Tinkham & Rentz, 1969: 12.

    Holotype; male; 1014076b-c11d-4b3c-a198-74988cc4380b; deposited at: California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California (CASC); United States: California: Fresno: Jacalitos Cr., 6m SSW of Coalinga

  • Stenopelmatus nigrocapitatus Tinkham & Rentz, 1969 in Hoekstra, 1998: 181.
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  • Ammopelmatus nigrocapitatus (Tinkham & Rentz, 1969) in Weissman, Vandergast, Song, Shin, McKenna & Ueshima, 2021: 4.
  • Ammopelmatus nigrocapitatus (Tinkham & Rentz, 1969) in Weissman, Weissman, Vandergast, Ueshima, Warchalowska-Sliwa & Song, 2026: 30, 193.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Hoekstra, J.M. (1998) Conserving Orthoptera in the wild: lessons from Trimerotropis infantilis (Oedipodinae). Journal of Insect Conservation, 2(3-4), 179–185.
  • Tinkham, E.R. & Rentz, D.C.F. (1969) Notes on the bionomics and distribution of the genus Stenopelmatus in central California with the description of a new species (Orthoptera: Gryllacrididae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 45, 4–14. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/228338#page/6/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 for the solid black markings on the top of the head.

Stats

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