Platorchestiinae subfam. nov. (Amphipoda, Senticaudata, Talitridae) with the description of three new genera and four new species
Author
Lowry, J. K.
Author
Myers, A. A.
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School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University College Cork, Cork Enterprise Centre, Distillery Fields, North Mall, Cork, Ireland. bavayia @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3256 - 2123
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-02-17
5100
1
1
53
journal article
20608
10.11646/zootaxa.5100.1.1
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Miyamotoia daitoensis
Morino, 2020
(
Fig. 16
)
Miyamotoia daitoensis
Morino, 2020: 8
, figs 6, 7.
Types.
Holotype
(NSMT-Cr 26792) ovigerous female 11.0 mm; near the mouth of Hoshino-Do cave,
Minami-Daitojima
Island,
Okinawa
.
Paratypes
,
1 male
7.6 mm
(NSMT-Cr 26793),
1 female
9.2 mm
(NSMT-Cr 26794),
1 male
7.6 mm
, (NSMT-Cr 26795); data as holotype
.
Type
locality.
Near
the mouth of Hoshino-Do cave,
Minami-Daitojima
Island,
Okinawa
,
Japan
.
Ecological
type
.
Forest-hopper.
Habitat.
40 m
altitude, living among the magnolia
Machilus thunbergii
, the cinnamon
Cinnamomum yabunikkei
and
Schefflera heptaphylla
.
Size.
Male,
7.6 – 9.2 mm
, female,
11 mm
.
Diagnosis (
male
).
Based on
Morino (2020)
.
Labrum
without robust setae along anterior margin. Gnathopod 2 dactylus short, recurved distally. Pereopod 4 thickened proximally with notch midway along posterior margin. Uropod 1 peduncle distolateral robust seta present. Uropod 3 ramus shorter than peduncle.
Remarks.
In
M
.
daitoensis
the labrum lacks robust setae (present in
M. spinolabrum
) and the pleopodal rami are about 0.3 × as long as peduncles (0.5 × as long in
M. spinolabrum
).
Distribution.
Japan
.
Okinawa
: Minami-Daitojima
Island
(
Morino 2020
).