Cave millipeds of the United States. VII. New species and records of the genus Pseudotremia Cope. I. Species from West Virginia, USA (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Cleidogonidae)
Author
Shear, William A.
text
Zootaxa
2008
1764
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65
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.182004
23b80268-81c4-4a9b-b53b-b59ff4eca084
1175-5326
182004
Pseudotremia fulgida
Loomis
P. fulgida
Loomis 1943
, p. 378.
Shear, 1972
, p. 188.
Type
locality:
Higgenbotham Cave,
1.5 mi
west of Frankford,
Greenbrier Co.,
WEST
VIRGINIA. Male
holotype
in
MCZ
.
Hoffman (1999)
misspells the locality as “Frankfort.”
New Records:
WEST
VIRGINIA:
Greenbrier Co.:
Allison’s Cave,
3 mi
NW of Frankford,
4 August 1973
, D. Culver, ɗ, Ψ; Bob Gee Cave,
23 July 1999
, D. Hubbard, ɗ, Ψ; McClung’s Cave,
4 April 1970
,
4 October 1970
, L. Ferguson, ɗɗ, ΨΨ; McFerrin Cave,
24 September 2000
, D. Hubbard, ɗ.
Pocahontas Co.:
Friar’s Hole Cave,
14 July 1981
, N. Plumley, ɗ, Ψ; Snedegar’s Cave of Friar’s Hole system,
7 March 1972
, D. Culver, R. Baroody, ɗ, Ψ; Hughes Creek Cave,
2.4 mi
W of Hillsboro,
18 May 1974
, J. Holsinger
et al.,
ɗ, Ψ; Piddling Pit,
13 August 1972
, D. Culver, R. Baroody, ɗ, Ψ.
Notes
:
Pseudotremia fulgida
is a highly adapted troglobiont endemic to the Greenbrier River drainage in Greenbrier and Pocahontas Cos. It may be expected in the many other, so far uncollected, caves in this region. In Snedegar’s Cave it is syntopic with a troglophile or epigean accidental,
P. hobbsi
Hoffman. In
the recently published
The Invertebrate Cave Fauna of West Virginia, Second Edition
(
Fong
et al.
2007
), numerous new records of this species are listed, and they are not repeated here. A perusal of the maps in that volume shows that the distribution of
fulgida
is coincident with that of several other troglobiotic arthropods, including
Pseudosinella gisini gisini
Christiansen 1960
(
Collembola
,
Entomobryidae
),
Litocampa fieldingi
Condé 1949
(
Diplura
,
Campodeidae
),
Pseudanophthalmus fuscus fuscus
Valentine 1931
,
P. higginbothami
Valentine 1931
(
Coleoptera
,
Carabidae
), and
Kleptochthonius henroti
(Vachon) 1952
(Pseudoscorpionida,
Chthoniidae
). These species and others may represent elements of a glacial relict fauna, once found on the surface but now limited to caves.