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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)
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Jerusalem Cricket2557 - Ammopelmatus
Copyright © 2005 Steve Nanz

Jerusalem Cricket2557 - Ammopelmatus
Escondido, San Diego County, California, USA
October 9, 2005
Stenopelmatus? Found on living room carpet.
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Contributed by Steve Nanz on 19 December, 2005 - 4:31am
Last updated 15 July, 2010 - 7:06am

It definitely looks like all our other Jerusalem Crickets
here in the guide. We don't have this family divided into genera yet.
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 19 December, 2005 - 8:25am login or register to post comments

 
Stenopelmatus
There appear to be just two genera in this family in North America--Nearctica.com lists Ammopelmatus and Stenopelmatus.

From this page on endangered insects of California, it appears that both species of Ammopelmatus are rare and local:
Kelso Jerusalem Cricket--Ammopelmatus kelsoensis
Point Conception Jerusalem Cricket--Ammopelmatus muwu

Those species names both refer to isolated areas in California (Kelso Dunes in the desert and Point Conception, along the coast), so I would presume they are not widespread.

Genus Stenopelmatus is the only one described by Helfer (1) and Capinera (2). See also images at USDA-SEL and at SINA, though they have no real description other than a brief one of related families on this page.

So, to make a short story long, as I am so wont to do, I think all of the images here are of Stenopelmatus. I wrote a new guide page for genus Stenopelmatus and moved all existing images under it.

Patrick Coin
Durham, North Carolina
… Cotinis, 19 December, 2005 - 12:07pm login or register to post comments

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