Southeastern Wandering Spider
Anahita punctulata (Hentz, 1844)

Taxonomy

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class

Trogloxene

Realm

Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Known from seven counties across three states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee

Counties

Alabama

Colbert, Jackson, Madison, Marshall, Morgan

Georgia

Dade

Tennessee

Warren

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G4 Apparently Secure

National ranks

United States

NNR

Subnational ranks

South Carolina

SNR Unranked

Virginia

S2 Imperiled

Alabama

SNR Unranked

Indiana

S1 Critically Imperiled

West Virginia

SNR Unranked

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

• Godwin, J.C. 2008. Biological inventory of the cave and karst systems of The Nature Conservancy's Sharp-Bingham Mountain Preserve. Alabama Natural Heritage Program, Auburn, Alabama, USA. 40 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. 1989. The cave fauna of Alabama. Part I. The terrestrial invertebrates (excluding insects). National Speleological Society Bulletin 51: 11–33.
• 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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