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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaHexapodaInsectaColeopteraStaphylinidaeTexamaurops

Kretschmarr Cave Mold Beetle
Texamaurops reddelli Barr & Steeves, 1963

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Hexapoda
Class Insecta
Order Coleoptera
Family Staphylinidae
Genus Texamaurops
Species Texamaurops reddelli Barr & Steeves, 1963

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Troglobiont
Realm
Terrestrial
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Range

Known from Texas in the Edwards Plateau and Balcones karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Texas

Counties

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

Karst regions

Edwards Plateau and Balcones

Specimens

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
University of Texas, Biodiversity Center, Entomology Collection 16
Field Museum of Natural History 1

17 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 17 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G1G2 Critically Imperiled to Imperiled

G1▲G2▲G3G4G5

Global rank last reviewed 5 November 2010.

Subnational ranks

Texas
S1 Critically Imperiled

State and federal status

Endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act listed 1988

Federal: Endangered

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
55Y5S
GBIF
1039437
ITIS
691480
iNaturalist
232428
NCBI Taxonomy
3402850

How to cite this account

Texamaurops reddelli Barr & Steeves, 1963. Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-0906. https://cavebiology.org/species/texamaurops-reddelli/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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