AMCS Bulletin 8Jointly published as
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Among the many taxa described in this volume are fifty new species and subspecies of troglobite from Mexico. This brings the number of described troglobites in Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize to 330. Many of the newly described taxa are from the Purificación cave area in Tamaulipas and Nuevo León, the Huautla region in northern Oaxaca, or the Cuetzalan area in northern Puebla.
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Preface 1Speocirolana guerrai sp. nov., cirolánido troglobio ciego (Crustacea: Isopoda) de la Cueva de la Chorrera, Linares, Nuevo León, México, by S. Contreras-Balderas and D. C. Purata-Velarde< 13Speocirolana pubens and S. endeca, new troglobitic isopod crustaceans from Mexico (Flabelliera: Cirolanidae), by T. E. Bowman 25Three new stenasillid isopods from Mexico (Crustacea: Asellota), by T. E. Bowman 39A new crayfish (Decapoda: Cambaridae) from the state of Puebla, Mexico, with new locality records for Procambarus (Villalobosus) xochitlanae and entrocytherid ostracod symbionts, by H. H. Hobbs, Jr. 45Description of a new troglobitic crayfish from Mexico, and a list of Mexican crayfishes reported since the publication of the Villalobos monograph (1955) (Decapoda: Cambaridae), by H. H. Hobbs, Jr., and A. G. Grubbs 51Studies of the scorpion subfamilies Superstitioninae and Typhlochactinae, with description of a new species (Scorpiones: Chactoidea), by O. F. Franke 63Some new species of pseudoscorpions from caves in Mexico (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpionida), by W. B. Muchmore 79The mygalomorph troglobites of the Americas (Arachnida: Araneae) by W. J. Gertsch 95The spider genera Pholcophora and Anopsicus (Araneae: Pholcidae) in North Maerican, Central America, and the West Indies, by W. J. Gertsch 145Millipeds (Diplopoda) from caves in Mexico and Central America. IV. New species and records of Glomeridae, Cleidogonidae, Trichopetalidae, Furmannodesmidae, and Sphaeriodesmidae, by W. A. Shear 161The cavernicolous anchomenine beetles of Mexico (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Agonini), by T. C. Barr, Jr. 193The trechine beetles of the Paratrechus series in Mexico and Central America, with special reference to the cave species (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae), by T. C. Barr, Jr. 237Regressive evolution and phylogenetic age: The history of colonization of freshwaters of Yucatán by fish and Crustacea, by H. Wilkens 245Rabia en murciélagos de la Cueva del Guano, Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, México, by A. Jiménez Guzman 249A checklist of the cave fauna of Mexico. VII. Northern Mexico, by J. R. Reddell 285Index of new taxa