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
5205
6
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journal article
187956
10.11646/zootaxa.5205.6.1
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1175-5326
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Subfamily
Trisariinae
Shear, 2020
Note
: The diagnosis of this subfamily, it now appears, was too narrowly based on the
type
genus,
Trisaria
Shear, 2020
. However, we do believe that the genera grouped in it represent a monophyletic taxon. Presently we rely on gonopod and ninth leg characters for a diagnosis (see key above) but when more genera and species of
Striariidae
available have been studied and described, we expect to compose a more detailed diagnosis. The new genus
Ralampia
is particularly difficult to place; the two species may or may not have a flagellocoxite and though there is a branch of the gonopod that resembles one, it is not sheathed.
Ralampia filamentosa
n. gen., n. sp.
, has a lateral filamentous branch that appears similar to those seen in
Trisaria
.
The ninth leg telopodites appear to be free. For the time being, however, we include this genus in
Striariinae
.