North American Cavernicolous Harvestman
Sabacon cavicolens (Packard, 1884)
Taxonomy
| Kingdom | Animalia |
|---|---|
| Phylum | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum | Chelicerata |
| Class | Arachnida |
| Order | Opiliones |
| Family | Sabaconidae |
| Genus | Sabacon |
| Species | Sabacon cavicolens (Packard, 1884) |
Description
Diagnostic characters
- Ecological class
- Troglophile
- Realm
- Terrestrial
Distribution
Range
Known from 10 counties across seven states.
Continent
North America
Country
United States
States and provinces
Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Montana, Tennessee
Counties
- Alabama
- Madison
- Arkansas
- Stone, Washington
- Georgia
- Walker
- Illinois
- Johnson, Monroe
- Kentucky
- Carter, Jackson
- Montana
- Madison
- Tennessee
- Blount
Conservation and management
NatureServe
GNR Unranked
National ranks
- Canada
- NU
- United States
- NNR
Subnational ranks
- Ontario
- SU Unrankable
- New Brunswick
- SU Unrankable
- Indiana
- SNR Unranked
State and federal status
Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
References
- Crosby, C.R. & Bishop, S.C. 1924. Notes on the Opiliones of the southeastern United States with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 40: 8–26.
- Harker, D.F., Jr. & Barr, T.C., Jr. 1979. Caves and associated fauna of Eastern Kentucky, Volume 3. Kentucky Nature Preserves Commission, Frankfurt, Kentucky, USA. 130 pp.
- Lewis, J.J., Moss, P., Tecic, D. & Nelson, M.E. 2003. A conservation focused inventory of subterranean invertebrates of the southwestern Illinois karst. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 65: 9–21.
- McDaniel, V.R., Paige, K.N. & Tumlison, C.R. 1979. Cave fauna of Arkansas: additional invertebrate and vertebrate records. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 33: 84–85. https://scholarworks.uark.edu/jaas/vol33/iss1/35.
- Nicholas, G. 1960. Checklist of macroscopic troglobitic organisms of the United States. The American Midland Naturalist 64: 123–160. doi:10.2307/2422897
- Peck, S.B. & Peck, J.H. 1982. Invertebrate fauna of Devils Den, a sandstone cave in northwestern Arkansas. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 36: 46–48.
- Peck, S.B. 1988. A review of the cave fauna of Canada, and the composition and ecology of the invertebrate fauna of caves and mines in Ontario. Canadian Journal of Zoology 66: 1197–1213. doi:10.1139/z88-176
- Peck, S.B. 1989. The cave fauna of Alabama. Part I. The terrestrial invertebrates (excluding insects). National Speleological Society Bulletin 51: 11–33.
- 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.
- Reeves, W.K. 2000. Invertebrate cavernicoles of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 116: 334–343. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24335885.
- Shear, W.A. 1975. The opilionid genera Sabacon and Tomicomerus in America (Opiliones, Trogulidae, Ischyropsalidae). Journal of Arachnology 3: 5–29. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3705252.
- Shear, W.A. 2010. Hesperonemastoma smilax, n. sp., a remarkable new harvestman from a cave in West Virginia, with comments on other reported cave-dwelling Hesperonemastoma species (Opiliones, Ischyropsalidoidea, Sabaconidae). Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 72: 105–110.
How to cite this account
Sabacon cavicolens (Packard, 1884). Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-2029. https://cavebiology.org/species/sabacon-cavicolens/ (accessed 7 September 2026).
Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.
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