The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893. VI. Six new genera and thirteen new species from western North America (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea)
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
Author
Marek, Paul E.
Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA 24061 USA.
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-11-11
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Lamparia curryensis
Shear & Marek
,
n. sp.
Figs 16–19
,
49–51
Types:
Male
holotype
from
NE of Brookings Curry Co.
,
Oregon
, north bend of
Chetco
River
Road
,
0.6 mi
NW of entrance to
Alfred A.
Loeb State Park
,
Redwood Nature Trail
, 135’ asl,
42.1187°N
, -
124.1959°W
, collected
4 January 2011
by
C. Richart
et al
;
male and female
paratypes
from
13 mi
W,
5 mi
N of Brookings
, T39S, R14W, S5 (
42.1239°N
, -
124.0141°W
), 2000’ asl, collected
12 February 1972
by
E. M. Benedict. All
material deposited in
CAS
; male
holotype
is on SEM stub WS35-13
.
Etymology
: The species epithet refers to Curry County,
Oregon
, which includes both known collection localities for this species.
Diagnosis
: Obviously close to
L. bentonensis
,
n. sp.
, but distinct in details of the gonopods (compare
Figs 61, 62
with
Figs 63, 64
) and in the much longer coxosternal process of the ninth legs (
Fig. 19
, cp). The sixth crests of this species are nearly twice as high as those of
L. bentonensis
n. sp.
(compare
Figs 17, 18
with
Figs 20, 21
).
Description
:
Male
holotype
.
Length,
4.8 mm
, width
0.48 mm
. Two black ommatidia on each side of head (
Fig. 16
, om). Sixth crests well extended as broad paranota (
Figs 17, 18
). Telson lobes nearly completely suppressed. Metazonital setae not seen, absent or concealed by heavy cerotegument. Color white to pale tan, faintly suffused pale purplish brown. Flasks of third coxae long, when extended posteriorly reaching to anterior margin of seventh coxae. Other characters as described for genus.
Gonopods (
Figs 19
,
61, 62
) moderately large. Coxae with 3 setae, bulbous (
Fig. 61
, cx). Anterior angiocoxites narrow, erect, with flattened, bulbous tip, posterior surface finely fimbriate from base to just below bulbous tip (
Figs 19
,
61, 62
, aac). Posterior angiocoxite complex (
Fig. 62
, pac) with two branches. Flagellocoxite possibly not sheathed. Two flagellocoxites, each narrow, slightly curved, comparatively short (
Figs 61, 62
, fc). Colpocoxite large and bulbous, shifted anteriomesally, densely set with triangular, fine cuticular teeth (
Fig. 62
, cc). Ninth legs with coxosternum. Coxosternal processes (
Fig. 19
, cp) flattened, elongate, distally slightly expanded. Telopodites (
Fig. 19
, tp) free, apically flattened, mesally curved anteriorly, with sawtooth edges, interlocking with gonopods, laterally fitting into shallow indentations in ventrolateral edges of seventh ring. Tenth coxae not much swollen, gland openings anteriodorsal.
Female
paratypes
similar to males in nonsexual characters.
Distribution
: Presently known from two nearby localities in Curry Co.,
Oregon
.
Note
: Additional collecting is required to establish the distribution of this species and the following one. They are evidently closely related and may in fact be variants of a single species.