Small Carrion Beetle
Prionochaeta opaca (Say, 1825)

Taxonomy

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class

Troglophile

Realm

Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Known from 23 counties across nine states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee

Counties

Alabama

Blount, Calhoun, Conecuh, DeKalb, Jackson, Madison, Marshall, Morgan

Florida

Jackson

Georgia

Chattooga, Walker

Illinois

Monroe

Indiana

Orange

Kentucky

Carter

Missouri

Oregon, Ozark, Shannon, St. Louis

North Carolina

Madison

Tennessee

Clay, Jackson, Marion, Montgomery

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G5 Secure

National ranks

Canada

N5 Secure

United States

NNR

Subnational ranks

Manitoba

S3 Vulnerable

Prince Edward Island

SU Unrankable

Nova Scotia

S5 Secure

Quebec

SNR Unranked

Ontario

S4 Apparently Secure

New Brunswick

S4 Apparently Secure

Alabama

SNR Unranked

Indiana

SNR Unranked

Virginia

SNR Unranked

Rhode Island

SNR Unranked

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

• Franz, R., Bauer, J. & Morris, T. 1994. Review of biologically significant caves and their faunas in Florida and south Georgia. Brimleyana 20: 1–109. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/229726.
• Harker, D.F., Jr. & Barr, T.C., Jr. 1979. Caves and associated fauna of Eastern Kentucky, Volume 3. Kentucky Nature Preserves Commission, Frankfurt, Kentucky, USA. 130 pp.
• Lewis, J.J. & Lewis, S.L. 2007. A biological reconnaissance of selected caves in the Highland Rim area of central Tennessee. Tennessee Chapter Cave Program, The Nature Conservancy, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. 42 pp.
• Lewis, J.J. 2009. Eight new cavernicolous species of the milliped genus Pseudotremia (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Cleidogonidae). In: Roble, S.M. & Mithcell, J.C. (eds), A Lifetime of Contributions to Myriapodology and the Natural History of Virginia: A Festschrift in Honor of Richard L. Hoffman’s 80th Birthday. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 16, pp. 171–186. Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville, Virginia, USA.
• Lewis, J.J., Whitaker, J.O. & Krantz, G.W. 2010. A biological reconnaissance of the invertebrate fauna of twelve Tennessee caves with notes on the guanophilic mites of the genus Macrocheles. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 85: 53–61.
• Peck, S.B. 1970. The terrestrial arthropod fauna of Florida caves. The Florida Entomologist 53: 203–207. doi:10.2307/3493189
• Peck, S.B. 1988. A review of the cave fauna of Canada, and the composition and ecology of the invertebrate fauna of caves and mines in Ontario. Canadian Journal of Zoology 66: 1197–1213. doi:10.1139/z88-176
• Peck, S.B. 1995. The cave fauna of Alabama. Part II: The insects. National Speleological Society Bulletin 57: 1–19.
• Peck, S.B. & Cook, J. 2002. Systematics, distributions and bionomics of the small carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae: Cholevini) of North America. The Canadian Entomologist 134: 723–787. doi:10.4039/Ent134723-6
• Zigler, K.S., Niemiller, M.L., Stephen, C.D.R., Ayala, B.N., Milne, M.A., Gladstone, N.S., Engel, A.S., Jensen, J.B., Camp, C.D., Ozier, J.C. & Cressler, A. 2020. Biodiversity from caves and other subterranean habitats of Georgia, USA. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 82: 125–167. doi:10.4311/2019LSC0125

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