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Recent Collections And Additional Records Of Collembola From Arkansas Caves, Michael E. Slay, G. O. Graening
Recent Collections And Additional Records Of Collembola From Arkansas Caves, Michael E. Slay, G. O. Graening
Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science
Recent collections and additional records of Collembola from caves in Arkansas are reported. Based on these collections and review of the literature, 35 collembolan species are known from Arkansas caves. Included in this group are 10 troglobiotic, or cave-limited, species: Lethemurus missus, Pygmarrhopalites buffaloensis, Pygmarrhopalites clarus, Pygmarrhopalites dubius, Pygmarrhopalites youngsteadtii, Pseudosinella dubia, Pseudosinella testa, Sinella barri, Sinella cavernarum, and Typhlogastrura fousheensis. Three of these species, Py. buffaloensis, Py. youngsteadtii, T. fousheensis, are endemic to Arkansas, while Ps. dubia is known only from the Ozark Plateaus Ecoregion. The remaining species are more widespread. Lethemurus missus, Ps. georgia, Ps. testa, and S. …
New Distributional Records Of Ants In Arkansas For 2008, David M. General, Lynne C. Thompson
New Distributional Records Of Ants In Arkansas For 2008, David M. General, Lynne C. Thompson
Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science
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Backyard "Bug" Collecting Results In 6 New State Records For Arkansas, U.S.A., Stephen W. Chordas Iii, J. Kremers
Backyard "Bug" Collecting Results In 6 New State Records For Arkansas, U.S.A., Stephen W. Chordas Iii, J. Kremers
Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science
The aquatic Hemiptera of Arkansas are fairly well documented (see Chordas et al. 2005), but the terrestrial bugs are less well known. Recent projects and publications have begun to address this deficiency. Including the 6 reported herein, there have been 64 Hemiptera species newly recorded for Arkansas between 2005 and 2009 (Chordas et al. 2005, Chordas and Kovarik 2008a, Chordas and Kovarik 2008b). The second author is an invertebrate enthusiast who maintains a large personal collection. The content of this collection is primarily an accumulation of invertebrates captured on or around his property in Clarksville (Johnson County) Arkansas (Figure 1). …