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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaChelicerataArachnidaAraneaeTengellidaeLiocranoides

Archer's Two-clawed Cave Spider
Liocranoides archeri Platnick, 1999

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Chelicerata
Class Arachnida
Order Araneae
Family Tengellidae
Genus Liocranoides
Species Liocranoides archeri Platnick, 1999

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Troglobiont
Realm
Terrestrial
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Type locality

Hutton Cave, Madison Co. AL

Range

Known from two states in the Interior Low Plateau karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Alabama, Tennessee

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
12S mitochondrial 1 297-297 bp KY015687.1
16S mitochondrial 1 435-435 bp KY016255.1
18S nuclear 1 1715-1715 bp KY016871.1
28S nuclear 1 2172-2172 bp KY017535.1
COI mitochondrial 1 1076-1076 bp KY018074.1
H3 nuclear 1 286-286 bp KY018563.1

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

Download all 6 sequence records (CSV) Accession, marker, molecule type, length, GenBank definition and a direct link.

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G2 Imperiled

G1G2▲G3G4G5

Global rank last reviewed 30 June 2005.

Subnational ranks

Alabama
S2 Imperiled
Tennessee
S1 Critically Imperiled

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
3V5J8
GBIF
2143582
ITIS
882454
iNaturalist
223875
NCBI Taxonomy
1956462
BOLD
BOLD:ADK0006

How to cite this account

Liocranoides archeri Platnick, 1999. Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-0159. https://cavebiology.org/species/liocranoides-archeri/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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