The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893: I. Introduction to the family, synonymy of Vaferaria Causey with Amplaria Chamberlin, the new subfamily Trisariinae, the new genus Trisaria, and three new species (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea)
Author
Shear, William A.
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-03-30
4758
2
275
295
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4758.2.4
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Trisaria rex
,
new species
Figs. 15–28
Types:
Male
holotype
and
3 female
paratypes
from. I-90 exit #37, 1300’ asl,
N47°26.613’
,
W121°40.061’
,
21 January 2005
, W. Leonard,
King Co.
,
Washington
,
25 February 2004
,
W. Leonard
,
C. Richart
, deposited in
Burke Memorial Museum
,
University
of
Washington
, Seattle,
Washington
.
Etymology:
The species epithet (Latin, “king”) refers to King County,
Washington
, to which the species seems endemic.
Diagnosis:
Distinct in the form of the gonopods and ninth legs. The posterior branch of the median angiocoxite is very long (
mac2,
Figs. 22
,
27
), while it is short in both
T. olympia
and
T. washingtonensis
.
In contrast to the robust form of the ninth leg telopodite in the other two species, that of
T. rex
is strongly compressed (
t9,
Figs. 20, 23
,
28
).
Description: Male from Twin Falls/Iron Horse trailhead.
Length, 8.0 mm, width,
0.82 mm
. Body form and secondary sexual modifications as described for genus. Gonopods (
Figs.20–22
,
26, 27
) robust, sternum (
gst
,
Figs. 20, 21
) broad, well-sclerotized. Median angiocoxite (
mac
,
Fig. 20
) with two branches: the anteriormost (
mac1,
Figs. 21
,
26
) short, blunt; the posterior most (
mac2
,
Figs. 22
,
26, 27
) long, bent posteriorly at nearly a right angle, then dorsally at a slightly more obtuse angle. Lateral angiocoxite (
lac
,
Fig. 20
) with three branches: the anteriormost (
lac1
,
Figs. 21
,
26, 27
) long, slightly curved, divided at tip into two processes, each of these further divided into three or four smaller, acute terminations, one set pointing anterior, the other posterior. Median branch (
lac2
,
Figs. 21, 22
,
26, 27
) set with dense array of fine spines, giving comb-like appearance. Posteriormost branch (
lac3
,
Figs. 22
,
27
) short, simple, bluntly acuminate. Colpocoxites (
cc
,
Figs. 22
,
26, 27
) entirely membranous, with scaly cuticle. Ninth legs (
Figs. 23
) much reduced, sternum (
st9
,
Figs. 23
), coxae (
c9
), telopodites (
t9
) almost completely fused, telopodites much flattened, distally setose; coxae with minute anterior pore (
cp
,
Fig. 23
). Tenth legs (
Fig. 24
) with enlarged coxae (
c10
,
Fig. 24
) bearing glands (
gp
,
Fig. 24
).
Female from Twin Falls/Iron Horse trailhead.
Length,
9.2 mm
, width
0.90 mm
. Nonsexual characters as in male.
Distribution:
WASHINGTON
:
King Co.
: North of I90, Pratt Lake Trailhead,
N47°23.829
,
W121°29.109
,
25 October 2003
, W. Leonard, m, f. Same, but
N47°23.821’
,
W121°29.108’
, 1700’ asl,
15 October 2009
, mm. I-90 at Snoqualmie River, Twin Falls/Iron Horse Trailhead,
N47°26.651’
,
W121°40.081’
,
25 February 2004
, W. Leonard, C. Richart, m, f; Tokul Creek, 520’ asl, 47.556°N, 121.817°W,
21 November 1979
, R. Crawford, m.
Notes:
Presently this species is known only from central and western King County,
Washington
.