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desert camel cricket - Daihinibaenetes - female

desert camel cricket - Daihinibaenetes - Female
Coral Pink Sand Dunes, Utah, USA
July 22, 2008
"Sand Treader"?

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desert camel cricket - Daihinibaenetes - female desert camel cricket - Daihinibaenetes - female

This may actually be Daihinibaenetes giganteus
I need to research the literature a bit more though. There is apparently doubt that the three described "species" of Daihinibaenetes are really distinct, but I don't know if they have been officially combined into one. D. arizonensis was described from near Petrified Forest in Arizona; D. giganteus from Great Sand Dunes in Colorado; D. tanneri from near Delta, Utah. Specimens from Glenn Canyon City, Kane County have been called D. giganteus. An Ammobaenetes was mentioned in passing from near Petrified Forest by Tinkham, when he described D. arizonensis, but it was apparently never mentioned again. This leaves a bit of uncertainty about which name should go on insects from Coral Pink Dunes. I'd have to examine the specimen to see which "species" it fits best. Ammobaenetes differ from Daihinibaenetes in having only three (instead of four) segments in the hind tarsi, otherwise they look pretty much the same.

It seems fairly certain, based on published records, that this will be in Daihinibaenetes instead of Ammobaenetes; so (at the risk of being wrong); I'm going to go ahead and move her to that genus.

Moved from Ammobaenetes.

Moved
Moved from Camel Crickets.

Yes.
Wish I could narrow it down further....You might try contacting Dr. David Lightfoot at U of New Mexico, he's an authority on Orthoptera.

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