The millipede family Conotylidae in northwestern North America, with a complete bibliography of the family (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Heterochordeumatidea, Conotyloidea)
Author
Shear, William A.
Author
Richart, Casey H.
Author
Wong, Victoria L.
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-03-19
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4753.1.1
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Calityla ubicki
,
new species
Figs. 51–57
Types
:
Male
holotype
from
CALIFORNIA
:
Trinity Co.
,
Indian Valley Creek Cave
, 4 air mi
SSE of Hyampom
, elev. ca.
565 m
.
,
40.567°N
, -
123.416°W
, collected
27 October 1990
, by
D. Ubick
,
W. Rauscher
(
CAS
)
.
Diagnosis
: Unlike any other, the femoral knobs of the male pregonopodal legs are limited to legpairs six and seven, with the knobs on prefemora seven basal, large and fungiform, and on prefemora six mesal and as a small swelling.
Etymology
: The species epithet recognizes the collector, Darrell Ubick of the
California
Academy of Sciences.
Description
:
Male
holotype
:
Length, 10.0 mm. 14 poorly formed and pigmented ocelli in triangular eyepatch. Metazonites with low shoulders on rings 5–24. Unpigmented. Legpairs one and two reduced, three to seven enlarged, with elongate tarsi, large fungiform knobs basal on femora seven, mesodistal low swellings on femora 6, knobs of femora seven roughened by small teeth (
Figs. 53–57
). Anterior gonopods (
Fig. 51
) simple, slender, tapering, slightly hooked apically, with subapical posterior tooth. Posterior gonopod coxites (
Fig. 52
) bearing short, curved fimbriate branch midlength, terminating in small, bifurcate process. Legpair 10 coxae of normal size, with small glands, legpair 11 femora with blunt, dorsally directed knobs.
Distribution
: known only from the
type
locality.
Notes
: C
alityla
ubicki
would seem to have some adaptation to cave life, with reduced eyes and pigment and somewhat elongate leg tarsi.