Utabaenetes is a genus of insects in the family Rhaphidophoridae. It is monotypic, containing the single species Utabaenetes tanneri, commonly known as Tanner's black camel cricket, that is endemic to the desert of San Rafael Swell in the western United States.[2]

Utabaenetes tanneri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Family: Rhaphidophoridae
Genus: Utabaenetes
Tinkham, 1970
Species:
U. tanneri
Binomial name
Utabaenetes tanneri
Tinkham, 1970

References edit

  1. ^ Orthopteroid Specialist Group (1996). "Utabaenetes tanneri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T22828A9392388. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T22828A9392388.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  2. ^ Tinkham, Ernest R. (1970). "A remarkable new genus and species of giant black sand treader camel cricket from the San Rafael Desert with key and notes". Great Basin Naturalist. 30: 242–249. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.5897.