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Ammopelmatus nigrocapitatus
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118 USA gryllus @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4840 - 6734
- 2. 2030 Benson Ave, Santa Cruz, CA 95065 USA hongkongphooey @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0006 - 9495 - 4922
- 3. U. S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, San Diego Field Station, 4165 Spruance Road, Suite 200, San Diego, CA 92101, USA avandergast @ usgs. gov; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7835 - 6571
- 4. 1435 - 1 Kubocho, Matsusaka, Mie 515 - 0044, Japan norihiro. ue. ja @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0002 - 1702 - 0836
- 5. Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sławkowska 17, 31 - 016 Kraków, Poland warchalowska @ isez. pan. krakow. pl; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7812 - 1644
- 6. Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118 USA gryllus @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4840 - 6734 & School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85282 USA hojun. song @ asu. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6115 - 0473 * Corresponding author & Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118 USA gryllus @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4840 - 6734
Description
Ammopelmatus nigrocapitatus (Tinkham & Rentz)
Black Headed Jerusalem Cricket
Figs 275–294, Tables 1, 2, 13, 40, 42
1969. Stenopelmatus nigrocapitatus. Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 45, 4–14. Holotype, adult male: California, Fresno Co., Jacalitos Canyon. Deposited CAS, Entomology type #10120. Specimen examined. (Note mistaken reversal of labels in original publication [Tinkham & Rentz 1969], with A. nigrocapitatus in Fig. 2 and A. pictus in Fig. 3).
Species #21, Weissman (2001b).
2021 Ammopelmatus nigrocapitatus. Weissman et al., Zootaxa, 4917, 1–122. Transferred to Ammopelmatus based on rear leg tibial spines and DNA.
Notes
Published as part of Weissman, David B., Weissman, Daniel W., Vandergast, Amy G., Ueshima, Norihiro, Warchałowska-Śliwa, Elżbieta & Song, Hojun, 2026, Massive radiation in Ammopelmatus Jerusalem crickets (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatoidea: Stenopelmatinae): Phylogenomics, revision, and biology of 105 new species from the United States and Mexico, pp. 1-775 in Zootaxa 5776 (1) on page 193, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5776.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/19213201
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Tinkham & Rentz
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Family
- Stenopelmatidae
- Genus
- Ammopelmatus
- Species
- nigrocapitatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ammopelmatus nigrocapitatus (Tinkham, 1969) sec. Weissman, Weissman, Vandergast, Ueshima, Warchałowska-Śliwa & Song, 2026
References
- Tinkham, E. R. & Rentz, D. C. (1969) Notes on the bionomics and distribution of the genus Stenopelmatus in central California with the description of a new species (Orthoptera: Gryllacrididae). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 45, 4-14.
- Weissman, D. B. (2001 b) Communication and reproductive behaviour in North American Jerusalem crickets (Stenopelmatus) (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae). In: Field, L. H. (Ed.), The Biology of Wetas, King Crickets, and Their Allies. CAB International, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, pp. 351-373. https://doi.org/10.1079/9780851994086.0351