 Some other species of fauna discovered in Karnataka include two species of whiteflies, "Distinctaleyrodes setosus" and "Aleurocanthus arecae"
and a caecilian, "Gegeneophis madhavai".Explorations in the soil around the Linganamakki reservoir has revealed eleven new species of earthworms.Karnataka is the home of few critically endangered species of flora that include evergreen trees like "Dipterocarpus bourdilloni", "Hopea erosa" and "Hopea jacobi", "Croton lawianus" (a small tree) and "Pinnatella limbata" (a type of moss).