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Species Ammobaenetes arenicolus - White Sand-treader Cricket

Ammobaenetes phrixocnemoides - Ammobaenetes arenicolus - female

White Sands Camel Cricket - Ammobaenites phrixocnemoides arenicolus - Ammobaenetes arenicolus

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 Rhaphidophoridae (Camel Crickets)

Subfamily Ceuthophilinae

Genus Ammobaenetes (Sand-treader Crickets)

Species arenicolus (White Sand-treader Cricket)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Daihinia arenicola Strohecker, 1947. Type locality: White Sands, Doña Ana County, New Mexico

Daihinia phrixocnemoides arenicola (Strohecker) Stroud & Strohecker, 1949

Explanation of Names

Originally described as a distinct species, but two years later considered a race of D. phrixocnemoides by the name's original author. Treated as a distinct species at Orthoptera Species File.

Identification

Distinction from D. phrixocnemoides is weak. Shape of external plates associated with male genitalia are different, and D. arenicola is lighter in coloring.

Range

known from gypsum dunes in Doña Ana and Otero Counties, New Mexico

Season

adults apparently most common in late spring

Contributed by David J. Ferguson on 26 January, 2012 - 6:55am
Additional contributions by Astrobirder
Last updated 9 June, 2022 - 9:52am

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