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
wshear@hsc.edu
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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 orator
,
n. sp.
Figs 19–21
,
33–36
Types:
Male
holotype
and female
paratype
from Banks Gulch,
4 mi
north,
8 mi
east of
Harvard
, 46.9818°, - 116.5607°, 2905’ (
890 m
) asl,
Latah Co.
,
Idaho
, collected
10 September 1978
by
A. K. Johnson
, deposited in the
California
Academy of Sciences. Parts
of the
holotype
are mounted on SEM stub WS34-6, deposited with the specimens
.
Etymology:
The species epithet, a noun in apposition, honors Orator F. Cook (1867–1949), a botanist specializing in cotton, rubber trees and palms who also laid a sound foundation for the study of North American millipedes, establishing many families and genera still valid today.
Diagnosis:
Distinct from the foregoing species from
Idaho
in lacking any spinules or teeth on the apex of the anterior angiocoxite of the gonopod.
Description: Male
holotype
.
Length, about
10 mm
, width about 1.0 mm. Body form and secondary sexual modifications typical of genus, as described above for
S. aculeata
.
Third legpair coxae with long flasks (
cf
,
Fig. 19
), postcoxal bars of pleurotergite 3 overlapping, broad (
pcb
,
Fig. 19
). legpair 3 telopodites robust, prefemora thickly swollen (
pf3
,
Fig. 19
).
Gonopod (
Figs 20, 21
,
33–36
) anterior angiocoxites hardly bent at all at “kink” but with very prominent transverse ridge, at least five distinct rugae, lateral subterminal spine shorter than in
S. vagabundus
,
mesal tip of anterior angiocoxite not projecting but laterally hammer-shaped. Posterior angiocoxites with two blunt terminal processes, three or four narrower processes, short posterior hook, sheathing four flagellocoxites.
Female
paratype
:
Similar to male but without secondary sexual modifications.
Distribution:
Known only from the
type
locality.