The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893: III. Four new species of Striaria Bollman, 1888 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striariidae) from Idaho, USA
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
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-01-29
4920
3
395
406
journal article
8331
10.11646/zootaxa.4920.3.5
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1175-5326
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Striaria vagabundus
,
n. sp.
Figs 18
,
29–32
Types:
Male
holotype
and
paratype
and two female
paratypes
from
Hobo Cedar Grove Botanical Area
,
St. Joe National Forest
, 47.0879°, -116.1128°, 4400’ (
1340 m
) asl,
Shoshone Co.
,
Idaho
, collected
8 June 2004
by
W. Leonard
, deposited in the
California
Academy of Sciences. Parts
of the
holotype
are mounted on SEM stub WS34-7, deposited with the specimens
.
Etymology:
The species epithet,
vagabundus
,
is a Latin noun in apposition, meaning “a wanderer” and refers to the
type
locality, Hobo Cedar Grove.
Diagnosis:
Distinct from other
Idaho
species of
Striaria
in having no spinules tipping the anterior angiocoxites of the gonopods, but instead three low, triangular teeth presumably homologous to the spinules.
Description: Male
holotype
.
Length, about 9.0 mm, width about
0.85 mm
. Body form and secondary sexual modifications typical of genus, as described above for
S. aculeata
.
Gonopod anterior angiocoxites (
Figs 29–32
) only slightly bent at “kink,” with about five distinct rugae proximal to the transverse ridge, long lateral subterminal spine, mesal tip projecting posteriorly. Posterior angiocoxites robust, with three terminal process, subterminal posterior hook, sheathing three or four flagellocoxites. Ninth legs typical, telopodite broadly flattened, coxa with small mesal process, loosely articulating with modified margin of seventh pleurotergite (
Fig. 18
)
Female
paratype
:
Similar to male but without secondary sexual modifications.
Distribution:
Known only from the
type
locality. Hobo Cedar Grove is an area of primary forest, with huge western red cedar trees (
Thuja plicata
) estimated to be as much as 500 years old. Many rare plants are known from this locality.