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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaHexapodaInsectaOrthopteraRhaphidophoridaeHadenoecus

Limrock Blowing Cave Cricket
Hadenoecus jonesi Hubbell, 1978

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Hexapoda
Class Insecta
Order Orthoptera
Family Rhaphidophoridae
Genus Hadenoecus
Species Hadenoecus jonesi Hubbell, 1978

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Troglophile
Realm
Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Known from seven counties across two states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Alabama, Tennessee

Counties

Alabama
Jackson, Madison, Marshall
Tennessee
Franklin, Hamilton, Lincoln, Marion

Conservation and management

NatureServe

GNR Unranked

G1G2G3G4G5

National ranks

United States
NNR

Subnational ranks

Tennessee
S2 Imperiled
Alabama
S3 Vulnerable

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.
  • Hobbs, III., H.H. 1994. Assessment of the ecological resources of the caves of Russell Cave National Monument, Jackson County, Alabama and of selected caves at the Lookout Mountain Unit of Chickamauga-Chattanooga National Military Park, Dade County, Georgia and Hamilton County, Tennessee. 200 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.
  • McGregor, S.W., Rheams, K.F., O'Neil, P.E., Moser, P.H. & Blackwood, R. 1994. Biological, geological, and hydrological investigations in Bobcat, Matthews, and Shelta caves and other selected caves in north Alabama. Geological Survey of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. 226 pp.
  • McGregor, S.W., O'Neil, P.E., Rheams, K.F., Moser, P.H. & Blackwood, R. 1997. Biological, geological, and hydrological investigations in Bobcat, Matthews, and Shelta caves and other selected caves in north Alabama. Geological Survey of Alabama Bulletin 166: 1–198.
  • Peck, S.B. 1995. The cave fauna of Alabama. Part II: The insects. National Speleological Society Bulletin 57: 1–19.

How to cite this account

Hadenoecus jonesi Hubbell, 1978. Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-2504. https://cavebiology.org/species/hadenoecus-jonesi/ (accessed 7 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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