Hoff's Cave Springtail
Oncopodura hoffi Christiansen & Bonet, 1980

Taxonomy

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class

Troglobiont

Realm

Terrestrial

Troglomorphy

Troglomorphic

Distribution

Range

Known from one county in Missouri in the Ozarks karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Missouri

Counties

Missouri

Warren

Karst regions

Ozarks

Specimens

Type material

Holotype

32682 · Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard

Paratype

INHS Insect Collection 529217 · Illinois Natural History Survey

Collections holding material

3 cataloged lots in 3 collections. Compiled from GBIF and not an exhaustive census: many collections are not yet digitised, and holdings are added continually. Search GBIF for specimen records.

Download all 3 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G1G2 Critically Imperiled to Imperiled

Global rank last reviewed 21 August 2002.

Subnational ranks

Missouri

S1S3 Critically Imperiled to Vulnerable

Ranks looked up 2 August 2026. Conservation status changes, and a rank here is as current as that date and no more.

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.

Other resources

Catalogue of Life

6SMSH

GBIF

2121923

ITIS

99884

iNaturalist

226398

How to cite this account

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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