The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893. II. New records and species of the genus Amplaria Chamberlin, 1941 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea)
Author
Shear, William A.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Biology, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney VA 23943 USA; current address: 1950 Price Drive, Farmville VA 23901 USA.
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-01-14
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2
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journal article
8837
10.11646/zootaxa.4908.2.3
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Amplaria rykkenae
,
new species
Figs. 11–14
,
51, 52
Types:
Male
holotype
from
1 mi
ENE of Upper Soda
,
Sweet Home Road
,
Willamette National Forest
, 44.4131°, -122.2619°, 1840’ asl,
Linn Co.
Oregon
, collected
1 October 2001
by
Jessica Rykken
;
male
paratypes
from
4 mi
WSW of Upper Soda
, 44.4015°, -122.3749°, 1440’ asl, collected
27 November 2001
, and from
4 mi
WNW of Upper Soda
, 44.4085°, -122.3844°, 612’ asl, collected
15 August 2001
, both localities on
Sweet Home Road
,
Willamette National Forest
,
Linn Co.
,
Oregon
, both collected by
Jessica Rykken. Parts
of these specimens are mounted on SEM stub WAS34-7
.
Etymology
: I am pleased to name this species for the collector, Jessica Rykken, presently entomologist at Denali National Park,
Alaska
.
Diagnosis
: Distinct from
A. arcata
,
the other species in the group, in having the femora of the second legpair in males of normal size, and the more prominent acute process at the tip of the gonopod anterior angiocoxite (
Fig. 12
).
Description
:
Holotype
male.
Length, about
11 mm
, width about 1.0 mm. Seven or 8 poorly formed, unpigmented ommatidia in triangular patch. Labral hooks long, nearly straight. Mandible not modified. Legpairs 1 and 2 similar in size, first legs without long setae, tarsi ventrally armed with twisted, spatulate setae. Trochanters of second legs without processes, small group of specialized setae present, femora of normal size. Coxal flasks of third legs evenly curved, tapering, pleurotergal bars of third ring narrow, not meeting in midline. Legpairs 4–7 enlarged, with flattened podomeres, coxae unmodified except for lobes on coxae 7. Metazonital crests moderate, segmental setae long, filamentous. Pygidium elongate, deeply divided between lobes (
Fig. 14
). Color uniform pale tan.
Gonopods (
Figs. 11, 12
,
51, 52
) with numerous spiculate processes posterioapically on anterior angiocoxites, coxites cup-like apically; posterior angiocoxites rather narrow, not greatly expanded distally, sheathing 3 or 4 flagellocoxites. Ninth legpair (
Fig. 13
) with long lateral coxal apophysis, mesally with poorly sclerotized fungiform area possibly representing vestigial coxal glands.
Females not collected.
Distribution
: Known only from the general vicinity of Upper Soda,
Oregon
.