The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893. IX. The identity of Striaria californica Cook, 1899, and the new genus Bayaria for Striaria nana Loomis, 1936, with a key to genera and an annotated checklist of the Striariidae (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. Author Marek, Paul E. Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA 24061 USA. text Zootaxa 2024 2024-06-07 5463 4 524 544 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5463.4.4 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5463.4.4 1175-5326 11612167 E3D0302E-AF02-43EA-9ABF-46E754DC655D Striaria granulosa Bollman, 1888 Striaria granulosa Bollman, 1888 , Ann. New York Acad. Sci. 10: 108. Type material evidently lost, but from Beaver Creek, Jefferson Co., Tennessee , originally deposited as type #230, USNMNH. Cook, 1899 , Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 21: 672. Loomis, 1936 , J. Washington Acad. Sci.26: 408. Causey, 1958 , Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 71: 181. Hoffman, 1999 , Virginia Mus. Nat. Hist. Special Publ. 8: 208. Bollman’s 1888 description of this species is incomplete and he thought his single specimen was a female. Cook (1899) had access to Bollman’s specimens and described, in great detail, a male. It is not clear if this was the same specimen Bollman used or not. Bollman (1888) mentions only a single, enrolled specimen so it may have been a male after all, and this is what Cook redescribed after unrolling it and finding it to be a male. Cook illustrated the tip of the anterior branch of the gonopod angiocoxite from two views, but provided no written description of the gonopods or ninth legs at all. WAS examined the holotypes of S. causeyae and S. zygoleuca as well as original material of S. columbiana and was able to determine, based on Cook’s description and drawings, that S. granulosa is probably not a senior synonym of any of those species. There have been several attempts to recollect the species at Beaver Creek or nearby, none of them successful. Causey (1958) recorded the species from localities in Georgia , Kentucky and North Carolina , but as all the specimens were juveniles, the records remain in doubt. She also considered S. zygoleuca a junior synonym of S. granulosa (without presenting evidence) so some of her records may apply to that species if indeed it is not a synonym.