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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaHexapodaCollembolaSymphypleonaArrhopalitidaePygmarrhopalites

Pygmarrhopalites pavo (Christiansen & Bellinger, 1998)

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Hexapoda
Class Collembola
Order Symphypleona
Family Arrhopalitidae
Genus Pygmarrhopalites
Species Pygmarrhopalites pavo (Christiansen & Bellinger, 1998)

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Troglobiont
Realm
Terrestrial
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Type locality

Turkey Hill Cave, Rockbridge Co. VA

Range

Known from four states across three karst regions.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia

Counties

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

Karst regions

Appalachians, Interior Low Plateau, Ozarks

Specimens

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
Universidade Estadual da Paraiba 5
Illinois Natural History Survey 1

6 cataloged lots in 2 collections. Compiled from GBIF and not an exhaustive census: many collections are not yet digitised, and holdings are added continually. Search GBIF for specimen records.

Download all 6 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G3Q Vulnerable

G1G2G3▲G4G5

Global rank last reviewed 12 May 2010.

Subnational ranks

Missouri
SNR Unranked
Tennessee
S1S2 Critically Imperiled to Imperiled
Virginia
S3 Vulnerable
West Virginia
S1S2 Critically Imperiled to Imperiled

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
4QNZR
GBIF
8656292
iNaturalist
229506

How to cite this account

Pygmarrhopalites pavo (Christiansen & Bellinger, 1998). Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-0471. https://cavebiology.org/species/pygmarrhopalites-pavo/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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