Pachydesmus crassicutis (Invertebrates of the Overton Park Night Hike BioBlitz 2016)

Pachydesmus crassicutis

Distribution ⁴

Global Range: There are eight subspecies occurring east of the Mississippi River from Shelby County, Tennessee, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to southern South Carolina and Gaston County, North Carolina (Hoffman, 1958; Shelley and Filka, 1979; Filka and Shelley, 1980). Subspecies crassicutus occurs in south central and southwestern Mississippi and eastern Louisiana, east of the Mississippi River, with a newly discovered and apparently allopatric population in south central Louisiana (Shelley and McAllister, 2006).

Habitat ⁵

Comments: It has been collected in hillsides in deciduous woods and pine woods (Shelley and McAllister, 2006).

National distribution ⁶

United States

Origin: Native

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Present

Confidence: Confident

Type of Residency: Year-round

Number of occurrences ⁷

Note: For many non-migratory species, occurrences are roughly equivalent to populations.

Estimated Number of Occurrences: > 300

Comments: Subspecies adsinicolis previously occurred as far east as Mobile Co., Alabama, about 35 km from Florida (Hoffman, 1958), but Shelley (2001) documented a new occurrence of subspecies adsinicolis in the Florida panhandle in Escambia south of Atmore, Alabama. Subspecies crassicutus is found as far west as Evangeline and Lafayette Parishes, Louisiana (Shelley and McAllister, 2006). Shelley and Filka (1979) documented subspecies incursus in the Kings Mountain Region of North Carolina (Cleveland and Gaston Co. according to Shelley, 2000) and the coastal plain of South Carolina.

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