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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Katydids, Camel Crickets, and relatives (Tettigoniidea) » Camel Crickets (Rhaphidophoridae) » Ceuthophilinae » Sand-treader Crickets (Ammobaenetes)
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Sand Treader - Ammobaenetes
Copyright © 2016 Robyn Waayers

Sand Treader - Ammobaenetes
Monahans Sandhills, Ward County, Texas, USA
July 20, 2012
Size: ~ 25 mm (did not measure)
Appeared after dark at edge of campground.
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Contributed by Robyn Waayers on 6 March, 2016 - 5:04pm
Last updated 18 March, 2016 - 11:02am

Moved
Moved from Ceuthophilinae.
… David J. Ferguson, 18 March, 2016 - 11:02am login or register to post comments

This looks like genus Ammobaenetes
The taxonomy of the genus is in a bit of a state of "unfinishedness", as there seem to be a number of unnamed "species" in the genus from a wide area of distribution. I'm not aware that ones from Monahans and Mescalero Dunes have been named yet, but the geographically closest named "species" are A. phrixocnemoides from south of White Sands to near Samalayuca, and A. arenicolus from White Sands, because of the coloring, yours looks more like A. phrixocnemoides, and perhaps it is the same species.

It is also worth noting that the author of arenicolus (Strohecker) later reduced it to the status of a race of phrixocnemoides, but currently they are listed as if distinct species in the Orthoptera Species File.
… David J. Ferguson, 18 March, 2016 - 11:01am login or register to post comments

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… David J. Ferguson, 18 March, 2016 - 11:01am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Sand-treader Crickets.
… Robyn Waayers, 6 March, 2016 - 5:05pm login or register to post comments

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