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Species Macrobaenetes sierrapintae - Sierra Pinta Giant Sand-treader Cricket

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 Macrobaenetes (Sand-treader Crickets)

Species sierrapintae (Sierra Pinta Giant Sand-treader Cricket)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Macrobaenetes sierrapintae Tinkham, 1962. Type locality: Sierra Pinta Dunes, 65 miles south of Mexicali, Hwy. 5, Baja California Norte, Mexico

Range

This species may not occur in the U.S., but is found close enough to the US border that it, or something similar should be looked for in dunes in southern Imperial County in California near the west edge of the Colorado Desert.

Habitat

Sand Dunes

Season

Adults occur in spring

Contributed by David J. Ferguson on 29 January, 2012 - 11:04am

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