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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaHexapodaInsectaColeopteraCarabidaeXenotrechus

Xenotrechus denticollis Barr & Krekeler, 1967

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Hexapoda
Class Insecta
Order Coleoptera
Family Carabidae
Genus Xenotrechus
Species Xenotrechus denticollis Barr & Krekeler, 1967

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Troglobiont
Realm
Terrestrial
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Range

Known from Missouri in the Ozarks karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Missouri

Counties

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

Karst regions

Ozarks

Genetics

Molecular resources

MarkerMoleculeSequences LengthExemplar
other unknown 5 602-1050 bp OR503090.1
18S nuclear 1 2182-2182 bp MK104140.1
28S nuclear 1 2255-2255 bp MK104141.1
COI mitochondrial 1 1468-1468 bp OR496885.1
wingless nuclear 1 632-632 bp MK104138.1

9 sequences, retrieved 23 August 2026. Counts change as sequences are deposited. Search GenBank.

Download all 9 sequence records (CSV) Accession, marker, molecule type, length, GenBank definition and a direct link.

Specimens

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 1
Oregon State Arthropod Collection 1

2 cataloged lots in 2 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 2 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G1G2 Critically Imperiled to Imperiled

G1▲G2▲G3G4G5

Global rank last reviewed 21 August 2002.

Subnational ranks

Missouri
S1 Critically Imperiled

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
5CBV5
GBIF
1036709
ITIS
110207
iNaturalist
233773
NCBI Taxonomy
2493401

How to cite this account

Xenotrechus denticollis Barr & Krekeler, 1967. Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-0822. https://cavebiology.org/species/xenotrechus-denticollis/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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