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Minute gem
Hawaiia minuscula
NatureServe conservation status
Global (G-rank): G5
State (S-rank): SH
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Species range
The only locality from which this species has been reported in Utah is in the Deep Creek Mountains of extreme west-central Utah near the Nevada border (Juab County) (Roscoe 1954).
The specimens from the Deep Creek Mountains were collected in 1953 (Roscoe 1954). However, Chamberlin and Roscoe (1948) listed "Hawaiia minuscula minuscula" (= HAWAIIA MINUSCULA) as occurring in Utah and clearly were distinguishing it from "Hawaiia minuscula neomexicana" (= HAWAIIA NEOMEXICANA), which they also listed as occurring in the state. Since this listing of "Hawaiia minuscula minuscula" in Utah (Chamberlin and Roscoe 1948) was published several years before the specimens reported by Roscoe (1954) were collected (1953), HAWAIIA MINUSCULA (s.s.) must have been collected elsewhere in the state before Roscoe's (1954) record, which Roscoe stated was the first from the county (Juab) but did not claim as the first from the state. Thus it is apparent that HAWAIIA MINUSCULA was first discovered in Utah sometime between Chamberlin and Jones' (1929) work, which made no mention of this genus in Utah, and Chamberlin and Roscoe's (1948) list, but no published report of the species in Utah prior to that of Roscoe (1954) has been found.
Habitat
The only information that has been reported regarding the habitat of this species in Utah is that of Roscoe (1954), who wrote that it was collected "[i]n Aspen, Douglas Fir forest, el. ca. 7500 feet", and this was "at base of cliff, south side of canyon bottom".
Threats or limiting factors
Threats to this species in Utah are not known.
