Causeyella youngsteadtorum

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name = Youngstead's cave millipede
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Myriapoda
classis = Diplopoda
superordp = Coelocheta
ordo = Chordeumatida
familia = Trichopetalidae
genus = "Causeyella"
species = "C. youngsteadtorum"
binomial = "Causeyella youngsteadtorum"
binomial_authority = Shear, 2003 [cite journal |quotes=no |author=William A. Shear |year=2003 |title=The milliped family Trichopetalidae, Part 1: Introduction and Genera "Trigenotyla" Causey, "Nannopetalum" n. gen., and "Causeyella" n. gen. (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida, Cleidogonoidea) |journal=Zootaxa |volume=321 |pages=1–36 |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2003f/zt00321.pdf]

"Causeyella youngsteadtorum", "Youngsteadt's cave millipede", is a ghostly white millipede, first collected in 1976 by an unknown caver, but not recognized as a new speces until 2004. It has been found in seven caves in Boone and Searcy counties in Arkansas [cite news |url=http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/arkansas/press/press1406.html |title=Millipedes Found in Arkansas Caves are New to Science |date=2004-04-07 |publisher=The Nature Conservancy] .

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