Cave millipedes of the United States. XVI. Two new species from Oregon Caves National Monument, Oregon (Chordeumatida, Conotylidae and Caseyidae)
Author
Shear, William A.
Author
Crawford, Rodney L.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-09-27
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4674.5.6
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Genus
Opiona
Chamberlin, 1951
Type
species:
Opiona columbiana
Chamberlin, 1951
.
The most recent revision is
Gardner & Shelley (1989)
; Shear (2011) adds one more species.
Opiona
presently includes 14 species and is distributed from central
California
to the Alexander Archipelago,
Alaska
(
Gardner & Shelley 1989
,
Shelley et al. 2007
). The single previously described troglomorphic species is
Opiona graeningi
from caves in the Marble Mountains, Siskiyou Co.,
California
(Shear 2011). Numerous additional surface-dwelling species of
Opiona
await description and naming.
Opiona
is best distinguished from other sympatric caseyid genera by the characteristic modification of the third leg, in which the telopodite arises distal to the midpoint of the elongated coxa and has a strongly inflated prefemur (
Figs. 9, 10
).