Alabama-endemic

Guides

• Anillinus folkertsi

  Anillinus folkertsi is a small ground beetle in the tribe Anillini (Carabidae), described from Alabama in 2004. Species in this genus are typically minute, eyeless or with reduced eyes, and adapted to life in soil and leaf litter habitats. The genus Anillinus is part of a diverse radiation of anilline ground beetles in eastern North America.

  ground-beetleCarabidaeAnillinilitter-dwellingendogeanAlabama-endemiceyeless-beetlesoil-fauna

• Hadenoecus jonesi

  Limrock Blowing Cave Cricket, Jone's cave cricket

  Hadenoecus jonesi is a cave-dwelling camel cricket endemic to the Limrock Blowing Cave system in northern Alabama. This flightless, eyeless insect belongs to the family Rhaphidophoridae, a group specialized for subterranean life. The species was described in 1978 by Thomas Hubbell and represents one of several cave-adapted orthopterans in the genus Hadenoecus.

  cave-endemictroglobiteAlabama-endemicRhaphidophoridaesubterranean