Nearctomeris, a new genus of Pill Millipedes from North America, with a comparison of genetic distances of American Pill Millipede Genera (Glomerida, Glomeridae)
Author
Wesener, Thomas
text
Zootaxa
2012
3258
58
68
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.210225
53a9cdb5-58c8-4846-ad4e-cbc984ede1aa
1175-5326
210225
Key to the American pill millipede genera (order
Glomerida
)
1. Body length usually>
5 mm
; male leg pair 17 resembling unmodified leg; male telopods without trichostele, femoral process completely sclerotized. California, N
Guatemala
to
Mexico
............................
Glomeroides
Chamberlin, 1922
- Body length usually ≤
5 mm
; male leg pair 17 with strongly reduced telopodite (
Fig. 4
B); male telopods with prefemoral and femoral trichostele (
Fig. 4
E), femoral process flexible, partly membranous. SE North
America
........................ 2
2. Head with conspicuous Y-shaped crest and antennal grooves; lateral margin of head sharp-edged and rectangular; collum with two transverse striae; thoracic shield with large hyposchism field; anterior margin of tergites with toothed ridge; tergites laterally without striae; telopods with tibial process.........................................
Onomeris
Cook, 1896
[see Wesener 2010 for a redescription]
- Head without crest or grooves (
Fig. 2
C); lateral margin of head well-rounded; collum with single transverse stria (
Fig. 2
F); schism of thoracic shield small (
Fig. 2
E); anterior margin of tergites without toothed ridge; tergites laterally with single stria (
Fig. 2
A); telopods only with femoral process, lacking tibial process (
Fig. 4
D)..................
Nearctomeris
new genus