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Tanner's Black Camel Cricket
Utabaenetes tanneri
Other common names: Sand Treader
NatureServe conservation status
Global (G-rank): G1G3
State (S-rank): S2
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Ecology
Some specimens vary in color from tan to black; it is not known whether the nymphs are pale tan in coloration, becoming black after maturation and exposure to increasing heat as the temperature increases in the spring. Found with other Orthopteran species: Trimerotropis agrestis gracewileyae, T. salina, Plagiostira gilletti, and an undescribed species of Ammobaenetes (Tinkham 1970).
Reproductive characteristics
This species has been observed mating at midnight (Toone 1991).
