Pseudosinella aera Christiansen & Bellinger, 1980

Taxonomy

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class

Troglophile

Realm

Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Known from 11 counties across two states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Illinois, Tennessee

Counties

Illinois

Johnson, St. Clair

Tennessee

Bledsoe, Cumberland, Franklin, Grundy, Jackson, Montgomery, Overton, Van Buren, Warren

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G4 Apparently Secure

National ranks

United States

N4 Apparently Secure

Subnational ranks

Texas

SNR Unranked

Louisiana

SNR Unranked

Tennessee

S2 Imperiled

Illinois

SNR Unranked

Indiana

S1 Critically Imperiled

Alabama

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.
• 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.
• 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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