NC Physiographic Region(s): mountains and western upper piedmont

River Basin(s): French Broad, Watauga, New, upper Catawba, upper Yadkin-Pee Dee

Adult Habitat: “burrows (primary burrower)” (Hobbs Jr. 1989); “primary burrower although occasional specimens are collected in streams” (Williams and Bivens 1996); in burrows in mucky seepage areas near streams, walking in grass in rain (Cooper and Braswell 1995)

Juvenile Habitat: presumably burrows and possibly surface waters along edges in cover (?)

Reproductive Season: n/a

Species associates: n/a

Conservation status:  not protected

Identification references: Hobbs Jr. 1989, Hobbs Jr. 1991, Jezerinac et al. 1995

Taxonomic Description:

body shape: cylindrical or laterally compressed, vaulted
coloration:  cobalt blue; brick red; reddish or orangish body with black on dorsal carapace
spines: lacking
rostrum: very short, blunt, with convergent thickened margins; no marginal spines; acumen very short or nonexistent; rounded or squared in shape; somewhat excavate or ladel-like dorsally
areola: narrow but not linear
chelae: subrectangular; not posessing long setae all over; one row of large tubercles on mesial margin of palm (sometimes second row present); gape between fingers lacking or slight; well developed dorsolongitudinal ridges on both fingers
other characteristics: small eyes; suborbital angle absent or obtuse; lacking postorbital ridge
form I male gonopod: teminal elements short and similar in length (mesial process may be slightly longer); corneous central projection with subapical notch; mesial process inflated at base and tapering distally