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.
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-03-19
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78
journal article
21316
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Taiyutyla tillamook
,
new species
Figs. 12–18
,
23, 24
Types
:
Male
holotype
and male and female
paratypes
from
Oregon
,
Tillamook Co.
, FS-14
2.2 mi
NE of
SR-22,
Siuslaw National Forest
, elev.
200 m
,
45.2303°N
, -
123.8422°W
, collected
10 December 2005
, by
W. Leonard
,
C. Richart
from litter and woody debris in a mixed forest including
Alnus rubra
,
Polystichum munitum
,
Acer macrophyllum
,
Acer macrophyllum
,
Acer circinatum
, and
Pseudotsuga menziesii
.
Diagnosis
:
This
is the only species from
Oregon
or
California
with a strong, retrorse branch posterior on the coxites of the posterior gonopods; this
type
of coxite has otherwise been found only on species from
Idaho
. Further, the small narrow femoral knobs on legpairs five to seven are distinctive.
Etymology
: The species name is a noun in apposition, referring to the occurrence of the species in Tillamook County,
Oregon
.
Description
: Male
paratype
from Siuslaw National Forest. Length, 14.0 mm. 20 ocelli in triangular eyepatch. Metazonites with modest angular shoulders on rings 3–24. Color pale, cream-tan, mottled with darker purplish brown, mottling strongest midbody. Legpairs one and two reduced, three to seven enlarged, with mesal knobs on femora of legpairs five to seven (
Figs. 14–18
), knobs smaller and thinner than in other species, femora of fourth legpair with low mesal swellings. Anterior gonopods (
Figs. 12
,
23
) somewhat flattened anteroposteriorly, subapically with distinct shoulder bearing small teeth, terminal process acuminate, hooked. Posterior gonopod coxites (
Figs. 13
,
24
) bearing large, complex fimbriate area just distal of midlength, terminating in small, twisted process; T-shaped branch (
T
) with long spine pointing ventrally. Legpair 10 coxae of normal size, with small glands, legpair 11 femora with long, thin, dorsally directed knobs.
Female
13.5 mm
long, similar in nonsexual characters to male.
Distribution
: Known only from the
type
locality.