Pseudanophthalmus is a genus of cave beetle. Over 200 species have been described in the caves of ten states of the eastern United States

United States

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Taxonomy

The genus was first named and described by René Jeannel

René Jeannel

René Jeannel was a French entomologist. He was director of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle from 1945-1951. Jeanell's most important work was on the insect fauna of caves in the Pyrenees, France and in the Carpathians, Romania. He also worked in Africa...

 in 1920. Along with the monobasic genus Neaphaenops (also Jeannel) from Kentucky

Kentucky

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 caves, the dibasic genus Nelsonites (Valentine) from Tennessee

Tennessee

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 and Kentucky, and Trechoblemus of Eurasia

Eurasia

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 and North America

North America

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(Ganglbauer), it forms the “Trechoblemus complex”.

Species

• Pseudanophthalmus alabamae
• Pseudanophthalmus audax
• Pseudanophthalmus avernus
• Pseudanophthalmus barberi
• Pseudanophthalmus barri
• Pseudanophthalmus beaklei
• Pseudanophthalmus brevis
• Pseudanophthalmus catorycetes
• Pseudanophthalmus chthonius
• Pseudanophthalmus ciliaris
• Pseudanophthalmus cnephosus
• Pseudanophthalmus conditus
• Pseudanophthalmus desertus
• Pseudanophthalmus digitus
• Pseudanophthalmus egberti
• Pseudanophthalmus elongatus
• Pseudanophthalmus emersoni
• Pseudanophthalmus englehardti
• Pseudanophthalmus eremita
• Pseudanophthalmus exiguus
• Pseudanophthalmus exoticus
• Pseudanophthalmus farrelli
• Pseudanophthalmus fulleri
• Pseudanophthalmus fuscus
• Pseudanophthalmus gracilis
• Pseudanophthalmus gransia
• Pseudanophthalmus guadratus
• Pseudanophthalmus hadenoecus
• Pseudanophthalmus henroti
• Pseudanophthalmus hesperus
• Pseudanophthalmus higginbothami
• Pseudanophthalmus hirsutus
• Pseudanophthalmus hoffmani
• Pseudanophthalmus holsingeri
• Pseudanophthalmus horni
• Pseudanophthalmus hortulanus
• Pseudanophthalmus hubbardi
• Pseudanophthalmus hubrichti
• Pseudanophthalmus humeralis
• Pseudanophthalmus hypertrichosis
• Pseudanophthalmus illinoisensis
• Pseudanophthalmus inexpectatus
• Pseudanophthalmus intermedius
• Pseudanophthalmus intersectus
• Pseudanophthalmus jonesi
• Pseudanophthalmus kerkeleri
• Pseudanophthalmus krameri
• Pseudanophthalmus lallemonti
• Pseudanophthalmus leonae
• Pseudanophthalmus linicola
• Pseudanophthalmus lodingi
• Pseudanophthalmus macradei
• Pseudanophthalmus menetriesii
• Pseudanophthalmus montanus
• Pseudanophthalmus nelsoni
• Pseudanophthalmus ohioensis
• Pseudanophthalmus orlindae
• Pseudanophthalmus orthosulcatus
• Pseudanophthalmus packardi
• Pseudanophthalmus parvicollis
• Pseudanophthalmus parvus
• Pseudanophthalmus petrunkevitchi
• Pseudanophthalmus pholeter
• Pseudanophthalmus pontis
• Pseudanophthalmus potomacus
• Pseudanophthalmus pubescens
• Pseudanophthalmus punctatus
• Pseudanophthalmus pusio
• Pseudanophthalmus puteanus
• Pseudanophthalmus rittmani
• Pseudanophthalmus robustus
• Pseudanophthalmus rotundatus
• Pseudanophthalmus shilohensis
• Pseudanophthalmus sidus
• Pseudanophthalmus solivagus
• Pseudanophthalmus striatus
• Pseudanophthalmus sylvaticus
• Pseudanophthalmus templetoni
• Pseudanophthalmus tenebrosus
• Pseudanophthalmus tenesensis
• Pseudanophthalmus tenuis
• Pseudanophthalmus tiresias
• Pseudanophthalmus troglodytes
• Pseudanophthalmus umbratilis
• Pseudanophthalmus valentinei
• Pseudanophthalmus vicarius
• Pseudanophthalmus youngi