Abstract

A new species of Texella, T. martensi n. sp., is described on the basis of a single male specimen from Titus Canyon Cave, Inyo County, California. The species belongs to the kokoweef group in having a spur on trochanter IV and lacking a postopercular process on the abdomen. Texella martensi n. sp. is the most troglomorphic of the four species of Texella now recorded from the Mojave Desert and it is the northernmost member of the group.

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