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Pratherodesmus n. sp. (troglobite) 
Record: Tulare Co.: Lost Soldier’s Cave. 
Pratherodesmus despaini Shear (troglobite) 
Record: Tulare Co.: Kaweah Cave (type locality). 
Bibliography: Krejca (2006); Shear, Taylor, Wynne, and Krejca (2009). 
Sequoiadesmus krejcae Shear and Shelley (troglobite?) 
Records: Tulare Co.: ?Clough Cave; Hurricane Crawl Cave (type locality); ?Lilbum Cave. 
Comment: This well-sclerotized species may actually be a troglophile. The records for Clough Cave and Lilbum Cave are 
based on females and only tentatively assigned to this species. 
Bibliography: Despain (2006); Krejca (2006, 2009a); Shear (2009); Shear and Shelley (2008). 
Tidesmus hastingsus (Chamberlin) 
Records: Amador Co.: Fern Frond Cave. Calaveras Co.: small cave near Shaw’s Cave; Cave of Skulls; Eagle View Cave 
No. 2; Lost Piton Cave; Pool Cave; Porcupine Cave. Shasta Co.: Shasta Lake Caverns. Siskiyou Co.: Skunk Hollow Cave; 
Trail Junction Cave. Tuolumne Co.: Banksula Cave; Indian Quarry Cave No. 2; McLean’s Cave. 
Family Paradoxosomatidae 
Oxidus gracilis (C.L. Koch) (troglophile) 
Records: Calaveras Co.: Moaning Cave. Shasta Co.: Shasta Caverns. 
Comment: Known as the hot house milliped, this species is cosmopolitan in distribution and has been spread by human 
agency. It is abundant in many caves near human habitations. 
Family Polydesmidae 
Undetermined 
Records: Calaveras Co.: Carlow’s Cave; Grapevine Gulch Cave; Lost Piton Cave; Moaning Cave. Santa Cruz Co.: Bat 
Cave; Dolloff Cave; Empire Cave; IXL Cave; Steams Cave; Stump Cave. Tulare Co.: Lost Soldier’s Cave. Tuolumne Co.: 
Crystal Palace; Crystal Tuolumne Cave; McLean’s Cave; Pinnacle Point Cave; ?Transplant Mine; Windeler Cave. 
Comment: Some specimens were transplanted from McLean’s Cave to the Transplant Mine. 
Bibhography: Briggs and Ubick (1988); Elliott (1978); McEachem and Grady (1978). 
Bidentogon sp. 
Records: Calaveras Co.: Carlow’s Cave; Lost Piton Cave. Tuolumne Co.: McLean’s Cave. 
Bibhography: Elliott (1978). 
Bidentogon n. sp. (troglobite) 
Records: Tuolumne Co.: Pinnacle Point Cave; Windeler Cave. 
Bibhography: Elliott (1978); Krejca (2006). 
Calianotus sastianus (Chamberlin) 
Records: Calaveras Co.: Crystal Stanislaus Cave. Tuolumne Co.: ?Crystal Tuolumne Cave. 
Comment: Only a juvenile was collected from Crystal Tuolumne Cave. 
Calianotus yosemitensis (Causey) 
Records: Calaveras Co.: Barren Cave; Bobcat Cave; Cave City Cave; Cave of the Catacombs; Diane’s Cave; Gerritt’s 
Cave; Grapevine Gulch Cave; Poison Oak Cave; Porcupine Cave; Scat Cave; Secret Cave; Shaw’s Cave; Sink Cave. Mari¬ 
posa Co.: Bull Creek Cave. Tulare Co.: Lilbum Cave. Tuolumne Co.: mine on ridge 4.5 km N of Columbia; McLean’s 
Cave; Mine Cave; Pinnacle Point Cave; Scorpion Cave; Tank Cave; Zilch Cave. 
Bibhography: Krejca (2006); Shelley (1997a). 
Family Xystodesmidae 
Undetermined 
Records: Calaveras Co.: Barren Cave; Bobcat Cave; Cave of the Crystal Snail; Diane’s Cave; Gerritt’s Cave; Grapevine 
Gulch Cave; Poison Oak Cave; Rabbit Hole; Scat Cave; Secret Cave; Shaw’s Cave. Mariposa Co.: Bull Creek Cave. 
