The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893. VI. Six new genera and thirteen new species from western North America (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea)
Author
Shear, William A.
0000-0002-5887-7003
Professor Emeritus, Department of Biology, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney VA 23943 USA, current address: 1950 Price Drive, Farmville VA 23901 USA. wshear @ hsc. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5887 - 7003
wshear@hsc.edu
Author
Marek, Paul E.
Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA 24061 USA.
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-11-11
5205
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journal article
187956
10.11646/zootaxa.5205.6.1
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Genus
Nototrisaria
Shear & Marek
,
new genus
Type
species
:
Nototrisaria ornata
Shear & Marek
,
new species
Etymology:
The name of the genus combines
noto-
in reference to the enlarged, paranotum-like sixth crests (C6), and
Trisaria
,
the name of a related genus in the subfamily. The name should be treated as feminine in gender.
Diagnosis:
A genus of
Trisariinae
composed of a single small species, distinct from other small striariids in the highly ornate crests of the metazonites, with C1 on anterior rings consisting of anterior and posterior knobs but disappearing on posterior rings, C2 strongly exaggerated, and C6 expanded into paranota (see
Figs 3, 4
).
Description:
As for the single species described below.
Distribution:
Widely distributed in
Washington State
west of the Cascade Ranges, including Pacific, Jefferson, Whakiakum and Grays Harbor Counties.
Note
: The genus has similarities to the previously described
Stegostriaria
Shear & Marek,
2022
in that C2 is elevated and larger than all the other crests. However,
Nototrisaria ornata
n. gen., n. sp.
, also has C6 broadly extended, forming paranota, C1 is suppressed and missing posterior of the midbody rings, and there are no intercalary crests. The gonopods of
Nototrisaria
n. gen.
are very different from those of
Stegostriaria dulcidormus
Shear & Marek, 2022
, and the complicated, highly modified ninth legs of that species are unique and unlike the simpler ninth legs of
Nototrisaria ornata
n. gen., n. sp.
Stegostriaria dulcidormus
is known only from Linn and Tillamook Counties in
Oregon
, well to the south, although the intervening forests are not well-sampled.
Despite the differences in the gonopods and ninth legs from species of
Trisaria
, the absence of a gonopod flagellocoxite and the fusion of all elements of the ninth legs, as well as an apparent comblike branch evidently fused to the anterior angiocoxite and a strongly fimbriate colpocoxite indicate that this genus and species are best placed in the subfamily
Trisariinae
.