Atheta annexa Casey, 1910

Taxonomy

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class

Troglophile

Realm

Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Known from 22 counties across five states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Tennessee

Counties

Alabama

Blount, Calhoun, Conecuh, DeKalb, Limestone, Madison, Marshall, St. Clair, Talladega

Florida

Jackson

Georgia

Bartow, Dade, Decatur, Grady, Walker

Iowa

Jackson

Tennessee

Blount, Franklin, Montgomery, Rutherford, Van Buren, White

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G5 Secure

National ranks

United States

N4 Apparently Secure

Canada

N5 Secure

Subnational ranks

Indiana

S4 Apparently Secure

Alabama

S3 Vulnerable

Virginia

S2 Imperiled

Nova Scotia

S5 Secure

New Brunswick

S5 Secure

Newfoundland and Labrador

SU Unrankable

Ontario

SU Unrankable

Quebec

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.
• 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.
• 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., 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.
• Mays, J.D. 2002. A systematic approach to sampling the arthropod assemblage of Gregorys Cave, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, USA. 83 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
• Peck, S.B. 1995. The cave fauna of Alabama. Part II: The insects. National Speleological Society Bulletin 57: 1–19.
• Reeves, W.K., Jensen, J.B. & Ozier, J.C. 2000. New faunal and fungal records from caves in Georgia, USA. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 62: 169–179. https://caves.org/wp-content/uploads/Publications/JCKS/v62/v62n3-Reeves.pdf.
• 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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Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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