Cave millipedes of the United States. XVI. Two new species from Oregon Caves National Monument, Oregon (Chordeumatida, Conotylidae and Caseyidae)
Author
Shear, William A.
Author
Crawford, Rodney L.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-09-27
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journal article
25362
10.11646/zootaxa.4674.5.6
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Genus
Taiyutyla
Chamberlin, 1952
Type
species:
Taiyutyla corvallis
Chamberlin, 1952
.
The most recent revision is
Shear (1974)
;
Shear & Krejca (2011)
adds one more species.
Taiyutyla
is among the most diverse conotylid genera, with species ranging from the Sierra Nevada and Coast Ranges of California north to Vancouver Island,
British Columbia
,
Canada
. The taxon extends possibly as far north as southern Alaska, with isolated more northeasterly occurrences in Idaho and western Montana (
Shear 1971
,
1974
,
Loomis & Schmitt 1971
,
Shear & Krejca 2011
, Shear, Richart & Wong in prep.). Species of the genus have previously been described from caves, but with only minimal or no troglomorphic characters. The new species described below is no exception, known only from a cave, but with well-developed, pigmented eyes and only somewhat reduced body pigmentation. This slight degree of troglomorphism suggests this species may not be limited to caves, or that the population is in the early stages of troglomorphic adaptation.
Taiyutyla
differs from the broadly sympatric conotylid genus
Bollmanella
Chamberlin
1941
in lacking a sinuously curved posterior pseudoflagellar branch on the gonopod.