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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) » Jerusalem Crickets (Stenopelmatidae) » Jerusalem Cricket (Ammopelmatus) » Ammopelmatus monahanensis

Species Ammopelmatus monahanensis

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Range · Habitat · Season · Life Cycle · Remarks · Print References · Works Cited
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Orthoptera (Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids)
Suborder Ensifera (Long-horned Orthoptera)
Infraorder Tettigoniidea (Katydids, Camel Crickets, and relatives)
Family Stenopelmatidae (Jerusalem Crickets)
Genus Ammopelmatus (Jerusalem Cricket)
Species monahanensis (Ammopelmatus monahanensis)
Other Common Names
Monahans cricket
Explanation of Names
Stenopelmatus monahanensis Stidham and Stidham
Range
w. TX (1)
Habitat
Monahans and Mescalaro sandhills (1)
Season
Jan-Dec (1)
Life Cycle
burrow by day, roam by night (1)
Remarks
Texas considers this to be a "Species of Greatest Conservation Need" (SGCN) (2)
Print References
Stidham, T.A. and J.A. Stidham. 2001. A new species of Jerusalem cricket (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae) from Texas. Southwestern Entomologist 26: 221-226.
Works Cited
1.Surveys and habitat assessment of endemic insects at the Monahans Dune System, Final report prepared for the TPWD.
Longing, S., S. Discua and J. Cokendolpher. 2014. Texas Tech University, Lubbock. 38 pp.
2.Texas "Species of Greatest Conservation Need" (SGCN) - TPWD
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 23 August, 2016 - 10:40pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban
Last updated 1 February, 2021 - 9:05am

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