Longleaf-pine

Guides

• Alloblackburneus troglodytes

  Little Gopher Tortoise Scarab Beetle

  Alloblackburneus troglodytes is a small scarab beetle in the family Scarabaeidae, subfamily Aphodiinae. Commonly known as the Little Gopher Tortoise Scarab Beetle, this species is associated with gopher tortoise burrows in the southeastern United States. The specific epithet "troglodytes" (meaning "cave-dweller") reflects its habit of living in the subterranean burrow systems of its reptilian host.

  ScarabaeidaeAphodiinaegopher-tortoiseburrow-commensalsoutheastern-USsubterraneanlongleaf-pinesandhill-ecosystemtroglophilekeystone-species-associatecommensalismcave-dwelling-beetle

• Dineutus shorti

  whirligig beetle

  Dineutus shorti is a species of whirligig beetle (family Gyrinidae) described in 2015 from the southeastern coastal plain of the United States. It represents the first unequivocally new species of whirligig beetle described from the U.S. since 1991. The species has an extremely restricted range, known only from a narrow section of the coastal plain in the Blackwater and Pensacola river watersheds of Santa Rosa and Okaloosa counties, Florida and Covington County, Alabama. It was named in honor of aquatic coleopterist Andrew E. Z. Short.

  whirligig-beetleGyrinidaeaquatic-beetleendemicsoutheastern-coastal-plainlongleaf-pinenew-species-2015United-States