Three new genera and eighteen new species of miniature polydesmid millipedes from the northwestern United States (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Polydesmidae)
Author
Shear, William A.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Biology, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney VA 23943; present address 1950 Price Drive, Farmville VA 23901.
Author
Marek, Paul E.
0000-0002-7048-2514
Associate Professor, Department of Entomology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061. pmarek @ vt. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7048 - 2514
pmarek@vt.edu
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-05-24
4975
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126
journal article
6194
10.11646/zootaxa.4975.1.3
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Rowlandesmus millicoma
Shear & Marek
,
n. sp.
Figs 85–90
,
131
Types.
Male
holotype
and male and female
paratypes
from
14 mi.
E,
2 mi.
S of Allegany
,
Weyerhauser Millicoma Tree Farm
, company
Road
6000, riparian zone of
Fall Creek
, 43.3983°, -123.7770°,
Coos Co.
,
Oregon
, collected
23 November 1971
by
E. M. Benedict. All
types deposited in
CAS
.
Diagnosis.
Distinct from
R. dentogonopus
in lacking prominent teeth in the terminal zone of the gonopod and in the more basal position and larger extent of the pulvillus (
p,
Fig. 90
).
Etymology.
The species name is a noun in apposition and refers to the
type
locality, the Millicoma Tree Farm.
Description.
Male
holotype
. Length about
3.5 mm
, greatest width
0.45 mm
. Head densely setose, cuticle alveolate (
Fig. 85
). Collum with anterior marginal row of 20 setae (
Fig 85
). Anterior metazonites with three rows of setae, transitioning to four rows about ring 5, setal tubercles low on anterior segments, becoming almost obsolete on midbody (
Fig. 86
) to posterior rings; some rings with interpolated setae nearly forming fifth row. Alveolate cuticle absent from metazonites posterior to collum. Epiproct (
Fig. 87
) swollen, short, decurved, lacking alveolate cuticle. Anterior legs crassate, tarsi with sphaerotrichomes. Femur of third leg slightly enlarged. Gonopod (
Figs 88–90
,
131
) with moderately inflated prefemorite. Acropodite short, robust. Pulvillus (
p,
Figs 88, 90
) basal, enlarged, pulvillar process absent. Terminal zone bifurcate, longer distal process (
z,
Fig. 88
) narrow at base, then broadened, bent posteriorly at slightly less than right angle, crossing lateral to shorter basal process (
x,
Fig. 88
). Females similar to males in nonsexual characters.
Distribution.
Coos Co.,
Oregon
.
Records:
OREGON
:
Coos Co.
:
11 mi
east,
4 mi
south of Allegany, Weyerhauser Millicoma Tree Farm, company road 6040, 43.3429°, -123.8435°,
21 November 1971
, E. M. Benedict, mm;
6 mi
east,
2 mi
south of Allegany, Weyerhauser Millicoma Tree Farm, company road 5000, 43.3944°, -123.9111°,
20 November 1971
, E. M. Benedict, m, f;
6 mi
east of Allegany, Game Commission cabin, 43.4311°, -123.9094°,
20 November 1971
, E. M. Benedict, mm.