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
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10.11646/zootaxa.4908.2.3
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Amplaria arcata
,
n. sp.
Figs. 15–26
Types
:
Male
holotype
and male
paratype
from
Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park
, 41.3729833°, 124.0138833°, 252’ asl,
Humboldt Co.
,
California
, collected
21 December 2006
by
C. H. Richart
,
A. Fusek
(Richart collection number CHR 1041).
Parts
of these specimens are mounted on SEM stubs: WAS33-18, WAS34-1, WAS34-2 and WAS34-3
.
Diagnosis
: Distinct from
A. rykkenae
,
the other species in the group, in having the femora of the second pair of legs of the males much enlarged, nearly as wide as long (
Fig. 15
).
Etymology
: The species name is a noun in apposition and refers to the nearby town of Arcata, where the species was also collected
FIGS. 11–13.
Amplaria rykkenae
.
Fig. 11. Gonopods, anterior view. Fig. 12. Gonopod tips, anterior view. Fig. 13. Legpair 9, anterior view.
Description
:
Male
paratype
.
Length about
10.5 mm
, width about 1.0 mm. Seven or eight black ommatidia in triangular patch. Labrum with long, sinuate hooks; mandible not modified (
Fig. 15
). Legpairs 1 and 2 subequal, legs 1 without long setae, tarsi ventrally with twisted, spatulate setae (
Figs. 15–17
). Trochanters of second legs with short ventral process with patch of specialized setae, femora enlarged, oval, inflated. Coxal flasks of third legs (
Figs. 18
,
21
) evenly curved, tapering, pleurotergal bars of third ring narrow, not meeting in midline (
Fig. 18
). Legpairs 4–7 enlarged, with flattened podomeres, coxae unmodified except for lobes on coxae 7. Metazonital crests prominent, more so posteriorly, posterior part of crests raised on rings 21–27 (
Fig. 20
). Pygidium elongate (
Fig. 19
,
20
), divisions between lobes deep, narrow. Color medium tan, crests darker, posterior edge of each crest outlined in purplish brown.
Gonopods (
Figs. 25, 26
) similar to those of
A. rykkeni
,
but with fewer spiculate processes on posteriodistal part of anterior angiocoxites, which bear large, blunt lateral lobes. Ninth legs (
Fig. 24
) also similar to those of
A. rykkeni
,
articulating loosely with depressions in pleurotergal margins of ring 7.
Female similar to males in nonsexual characters.
Distribution
: In addition to
type
locality known from
CALIFORNIA
:
Humboldt Co.:
Arcata, Community Forest east of Humboldt State University, 40.8699°, -124.0725°, collected
31 March 2011
by C. H. Richart
et al.
mmff.