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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaHexapodaInsectaColeopteraLeiodidaePtomaphagus

Ptomaphagus longicornis Jeannel, 1949

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Hexapoda
Class Insecta
Order Coleoptera
Family Leiodidae
Genus Ptomaphagus
Species Ptomaphagus longicornis Jeannel, 1949

Synonyms

Ptomaphagus loedingi longicornis Jeannel, 1949

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Troglobiont
Realm
Terrestrial
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Type locality

Hering Cave (Cave Spring), Madison Co. AL

Range

Known from Alabama in the Interior Low Plateau karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Alabama

Counties

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

Karst regions

Interior Low Plateau

Genetics

Molecular resources

MarkerMoleculeSequences LengthExemplar
16S mitochondrial 3 1076-1076 bp KT167431.1
COI mitochondrial 3 860-860 bp KT167479.1
cytb mitochondrial 3 357-357 bp KT167527.1

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.

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G3G4 Vulnerable to Apparently Secure

G1G2G3▲G4▲G5

Global rank last reviewed 21 August 2002.

Subnational ranks

Alabama
S2 Imperiled

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
4Q9CZ
GBIF
9567016
ITIS
933762
iNaturalist
229426
NCBI Taxonomy
1837191

How to cite this account

Ptomaphagus longicornis Jeannel, 1949. Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-0849. https://cavebiology.org/species/ptomaphagus-longicornis/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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