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 bombillus
,
n. sp.
Figs 14–17
,
25–28
Types:
Male
holotype
and two female
paratypes
from
Little Bumblebee Creek
, 47.6238°, -116.2972°,
Shoshone Co.
,
Idaho
, collected
11 April 2003
by
W. Leonard
, deposited in the
California
Academy of Sciences. Parts
of the
holotype
are mounted on SEM stub WS34-5, deposited with the specimens
.
Etymology:
The species epithet is a Latin noun in apposition, diminuitive of
bombus,
a bumblebee, and refers to Little Bumblebee Creek, the
type
locality.
Diagnosis:
Similar to the preceding species, but differing in the fewer, shorter, less curved spinules and in lacking a lateral process of the anterior angiocoxites; possibly the lateral process has shifted somewhat to the mesal side of the anterior angiocoxites.
Description: Male
holotype
.
Length, about
11 mm
, width about 1.0 mm. Body form and secondary sexual characters as for the genus and
Striaria aculeata
,
see above.
Gonopod anterior angiocoxites (
Figs 25, 26
) sharply bent posteriorad about two thirds their length at pronounced transverse ridge, proximal to ridge are 2 or 3 distinct rugae; tip (
Figs 27, 28
) with a few long spinules mesal, more laterally are more numerous but lower spinules in single row. Posterior angiocoxites robust, sheathing three or four flagellocoxites, lacking hook-like process seen in
S. aculeata
.
Ninth legs as in
S. aculeata
.
Female
paratype
:
Similar to male but without secondary sexual modifications; pygidium short, broad (
Fig. 17
).
Distribution:
Known only from the
type
locality.