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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaCrustaceaMalacostracaAmphipodaHadziidaeTexiweckeliopsis

Texiweckeliopsis insolita (Holsinger, 1980)

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Crustacea
Class Malacostraca
Order Amphipoda
Family Hadziidae
Genus Texiweckeliopsis
Species Texiweckeliopsis insolita (Holsinger, 1980)

Synonyms

Texiweckelia insolita Holsinger, 1980

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Stygobiont
Realm
Aquatic
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Range

Known from Texas in the Edwards Plateau and Balcones karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Texas

Counties

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

Karst regions

Edwards Plateau and Balcones

Specimens

Type material

Paratype ×10
Canadian Museum of Nature
Paratype ×78
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Paratype ×10
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Type
USNM 171149 · National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
Edwards Aquifer Research and Data Center, Texas State University 190
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 83
Canadian Museum of Nature 10
Naturalis Biodiversity Center 10
University of Texas, Biodiversity Center, Entomology Collection 10

303 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 303 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G3 Vulnerable

G1G2G3▲G4G5

Global rank last reviewed 1 October 1997.

Subnational ranks

Texas
S2 Imperiled

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
55Y8S
GBIF
2216517
ITIS
656855
iNaturalist
874021

How to cite this account

Texiweckeliopsis insolita (Holsinger, 1980). Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-1123. https://cavebiology.org/species/texiweckeliopsis-insolita/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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