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 simulans
Loomis
P. simulans
Loomis 1939
, p. 170;
Shear, 1972
, p. 187.
Type
locality:
Simmons Cave, near Cave Post Office,
Pendlleton Co.,
WEST
VIRGINIA.
Holotype
male in
MCZ
.
All known localities were reported by me in 1972. Closely related to
P. princeps
,
this is a large, pigmented epigean or troglophilic species that has been taken in two caves and in an epigean habitat (a marsh). All localities are in Pendleton Co., near the town of Franklin and in the drainage of the South Fork of the South Branch of the Potomac River.
P. princeps
and
P. simulans
may be descendants of a common ancestor, populations of which became isolated in the two adjacent valleys.