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
53
65
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.182004
23b80268-81c4-4a9b-b53b-b59ff4eca084
1175-5326
182004
Pseudotremia tsuga
Shear
P. t s u g a
Shear 1972
, p. 190.
Type
locality:
Cranberry Glades Natural Area, near Mill Point,
Pocahontas Co.,
WEST
VIRGINIA (male
holotype
and male
paratype
,
MCZ
) and a marsh near Mill Point (female
paratypes
,
MCZ
).
New record:
WEST
VIRGINIA:
Pocahontas Co
.: Bolling Cave,
7 January 1972
, D. Culver, R. Baroody, m,f.
This is another large, pigmented, epigean species with well-developed eyes (25 ocelli in each eyepatch). The
type
males were taken in a high elevation sphagnum bog (Cranberry Glades) well known for isolated records of otherwise boreal plants and animals.