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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaHexapodaInsectaOrthopteraRhaphidophoridaeEuhadenoecus

Allegheny Crevice Cricket
Euhadenoecus puteanus (Scudder, 1877)

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Hexapoda
Class Insecta
Order Orthoptera
Family Rhaphidophoridae
Genus Euhadenoecus
Species Euhadenoecus puteanus (Scudder, 1877)

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Troglophile
Realm
Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Known from 14 counties across four states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee

Counties

Alabama
DeKalb, Jackson
Georgia
Bartow, Dade, Gordon, Polk, Walker
Kentucky
Carter
Tennessee
Cumberland, Fentress, Marion, Pickett, Putnam, Van Buren

Conservation and management

NatureServe

GNR Unranked

G1G2G3G4G5

National ranks

United States
NNR

Subnational ranks

Alabama
S1 Critically Imperiled

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

  • 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. 2005. A biological inventory of caves of the Cumberland Plateau. Tennessee Chapter Cave Program, The Nature Conservancy, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. 156 pp.
  • Peck, S.B. 1995. The cave fauna of Alabama. Part II: The insects. National Speleological Society Bulletin 57: 1–19.
  • 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

How to cite this account

Euhadenoecus puteanus (Scudder, 1877). Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-2448. https://cavebiology.org/species/euhadenoecus-puteanus/ (accessed 7 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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