Ligidium chatoogaensis Schultz, 1970

Recuero, Ernesto & Caterino, Michael S., 2025, Is there anybody (new) out there? Seven new species of Ligidium (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Ligiidae) from the Southern Appalachians, eastern North America, European Journal of Taxonomy 976, pp. 133-170 : 164

Ligidium chatoogaensis Schultz, 1970

Ligidium elrodii chatoogaensis Schultz, 1970: 43 , figs 29–33.

Remarks

In the form of male pleopod 2 endopodite this species resembles Ligidium elrodii , but having a constricted tip, and only five scale-like spines on the distal margin of the tip.

The species is so far known only from its type locality, Blowing Spring Cave, 2.5 miles NE Cloudland, Chattooga Co., Georgia (see map in Fig. 18 ).

Figures

Fig. 18. Minimum convex polygons showing extent of occurrence of species of Ligidium Brandt, 1833 with several known localities, and type localities for species known from a single locality (see figure legend). Dotted black line indicates the location of the Asheville Depression Barrier. Dotted white line indicates the location of the Little Tennessee River Barrier.