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Ammobaenetes sp.

Ammobaenetes sp. "Kelso" - Ammobaenetes - Female
Kelso Dunes, San Bernardino County, California, USA
August 8, 2015
Size: ~2cm
Came to oatmeal trail at night in desert dune habitat

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Ammobaenetes sp. Ammobaenetes sp. Ammobaenetes sp. Ammobaenetes sp.

Moved
Moved from Camel Crickets.

I found my own reference to it
here

If anyone wants to read it, the article is here. I can't find any other references to this one; apparently nobody every followed up on it?

 
Me too...
That's the same reference I found. I spent quite a bit of time on google scholar searching for any information on Ammobaenetes and Ammobaenetes at Kelso without turning up any additional information. It looks like it was never described, but at least now there are some pictures ;o)

perhaps related?
but I suspect neither one is even in the same genus (the second is misplaced I suspect - and I'm the one who did it)


Kelso Dunes rings a bell, but I don't remember the reference.

 
ID
Not sure on the first one. Could it be a pale Ceuthophilus sp., maybe undescribed? The tibia look very spiny and I can't see a clear sand basket. The second one seems to match mine pretty well in terms of the sand baskets, rear leg shape, and the shape of the ovipositor. I did look at mine under black light but they really didn't fluoresce. The glow was so weak that if I hadn't already known the cricket was there I wouldn't have spotted it.

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