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.
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-03-19
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Brunsonia chelanomagna
,
new species
Figs. 180, 181
Types
:
Male
holotype
, five male and
11 female
paratypes
from
WASHINGTON
:
Chelan Co.
,
Lake Chelan
,
Wenatchee National Forest
,
Fields Point
, elev.
360 m
.
,
47.9699°N
, -
120.2160°W
, collected
26 October 2007
, by
W. Leonard
,
J. Baugh
.
Diagnosis
: Distinct from the syntopic
B. chelanoparva
in the distinctly pyramidal anterior gonopods, the posterior gonopod coxites lacking process
a
, and in having femoral knobs on legpairs 3 and 4, as opposed to 4 and 5.
Etymology
: The species name is a combination of Lake Chelan, the
type
locality, and Latin
magna,
noting the fact that it is the larger of two species of
Brunsonia
syntopic there.
Description
:
Male
holotype
: Length,
15–15.5 mm
. Nineteen ocelli in triangular patch. Metazonites with poorly developed shoulders on all trunk segments, segmental setae short, acute, curved. Color pale tan, with transverse bands of purplish brown on metazonites, pale spot surrounding outermost segmental setae, similar but lighter bands on prozonites. Legpairs three to seven encrassate as usual, femoral knobs present on legpairs three and four. Anterior gonopods (
Fig. 180
) broad at base, quickly tapering to acute tip, tip posteriorly curved, dorsolateral pit large, deep, channel to tip of gonopod trending first lateral, then posterior, ending on short, subapical process. Posterior gonopod coxites (
Fig. 181
) with finger-like projection at tip, strongly curved posteriolaterally, process
a
evidently lacking, channeled process large, prominent, with large pore basally, rugose or warty area small, restricted. Posterior gonopod prefemur clavate. Legpair 10 enlarged, with glands, legpair 11 prefemora with dorsally directed, curved processes.
Female 15.0–16.0 mm long, nonsexual characters similar to those of male.
Distribution
: Known only from the
type
locality.
Notes
: The anterior gonopods are closer in form to those of
B. pulchra
,
but less complex at the tips. As noted above, this species is syntopic with
B. chelanoparva
at the
type
locality.