Glacicavicola Westcott, 1968: 3
Glacicavicola bathysciodes Westcott, 1968
G. bathysciodes Westcott, 1968: 3
CHOLEVINAE Kirby
An Annotated Catalog of the Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of the Nearctic Region (Continental North America North of Mexico)
Peck, Stewart B.
Newton, Alfred F.
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2017
2017-06-27
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Westcott, 1968
Westcott
1968
[810,1161,1305,1326]
Insecta
Leiodidae
Glacicavicola
Animalia
Coleoptera
7
217
Arthropoda
genus
Glacicavicola Westcott, 1968: 3. Typespecies: Glacicavicola bathysciodes Westcott, 1968(by original designation). Distribution.NW Nearctic ( Idaho, Wyoming) ( 1 sp.). G. bathysciodes Westcott, 1968: 3. Holotypemale in CASC. Type locality: Crystal Falls Cave (lava tube), Clark County, Idaho. North American distribution: USA:ID, WY (Fossil Mountain Ice Cave (limestone cave)). Unpublished new records (Dave Hubbard, personal communication 2001; specimens seen by T. C. Barr): ID; Clark County, Sand Lake Cave (ice cave), Icecapades Cave (ice cave). Fremont County, London Tunnel Cave (no ice). Gooding County, Jaw Dropper Cave (no ice). Biology: Eyeless inhabitant of lava tubes and limestone caves in habitats usually at near-freezing temperatures ( Westcott 1968; Peck 1974, 1981); also possibly in deep cold-humid rock crevices or talus slopes. Brain-eye histology: Optic lobes absent ( Larsen et al.1979). Subfamily CHOLEVINAE KirbyThe small carrion beetles