Springtail
Isotomiella minor (Schäffer, 1896)

Taxonomy

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class

Trogloxene

Realm

Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Known from three counties across three states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Iowa, Illinois, Tennessee

Counties

Iowa

Jackson

Illinois

St. Clair

Tennessee

Van Buren

Conservation and management

NatureServe

GNR Unranked

National ranks

Canada

NU

United States

NNR

Subnational ranks

Northwest Territories

SU Unrankable

Nova Scotia

SU Unrankable

Alberta

SU Unrankable

British Columbia

SU Unrankable

Indiana

SNR Unranked

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

• 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. & Christiansen, K. 1990. Evolution and zoogeography of the invertebrate cave faunas of the Driftless Area of the upper Mississippi River Valley of Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois, U.S.A. Canadian Journal of Zoology 68: 73–88. doi:10.1139/z90-012
• Soto-Adames, F.N. & Taylor, S.J. 2013. New species and new records of springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola) from caves in the Salem Plateau of Illinois, USA. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 75: 146–175. doi:10.4311/2011LSC0257

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