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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaMyriapodaDiplopodaChordeumatidaConotylidaeIdagona

Idaho Lave Tube Millipede
Idagona westcotti Buckett & Gardner, 1967

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Myriapoda
Class Diplopoda
Order Chordeumatida
Family Conotylidae
Genus Idagona
Species Idagona westcotti Buckett & Gardner, 1967

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Troglobiont
Realm
Terrestrial
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Range

Known from Idaho in the Other karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Idaho

Counties

County-level records have not been compiled for this taxon. Distribution is recorded at state and karst-region level.

Karst regions

Other

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G1G2 Critically Imperiled to Imperiled

G1▲G2▲G3G4G5

Global rank last reviewed 9 February 2005.

Subnational ranks

Idaho
S1 Critically Imperiled

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
3PC3R
GBIF
1023575
ITIS
570539
iNaturalist
222170

How to cite this account

Idagona westcotti Buckett & Gardner, 1967. Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-0555. https://cavebiology.org/species/idagona-westcotti/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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