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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaHexapodaInsectaColeopteraCarabidaePseudanophthalmus

Pseudanophthalmus grandis Valentine, 1931

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Hexapoda
Class Insecta
Order Coleoptera
Family Carabidae
Genus Pseudanophthalmus
Species Pseudanophthalmus grandis Valentine, 1931

Synonyms

Pseudanophthalmus gransia Valentine, 1931

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Troglobiont
Realm
Terrestrial
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Type locality

Higginbothams Cave, Greenbrier Co. WV

Range

Known from West Virginia in the Appalachians karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

West Virginia

Counties

County-level records have not been compiled for this taxon. Distribution is recorded at state and karst-region level.

Karst regions

Appalachians

Specimens

Type material

Holotype
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Holotype
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Paratype ×2
Field Museum of Natural History

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
Field Museum of Natural History 2
Illinois Natural History Survey 2
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 2
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 2
Lund University Biological Museum 1

9 cataloged lots in 5 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 9 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G4 Apparently Secure

G1G2G3G4▲G5

Global rank last reviewed 20 May 2009.

Subnational ranks

West Virginia
S3 Vulnerable

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
4NKFW
GBIF
7894906
ITIS
931782
iNaturalist
228970
NCBI Taxonomy
2992995

How to cite this account

Pseudanophthalmus grandis Valentine, 1931. Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-0703. https://cavebiology.org/species/pseudanophthalmus-grandis/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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