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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journal article
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Loomisiella pylei
,
new species
Figs. 244–246
Types
:
Male
holotype
, male and female
paratypes
from
WASHINGTON
:
Wahakiakum Co.
,
Lower Hendrickson Canyon
,
46.3693°N
, -
123.6657°W
, elev.
30 m
, old-growth forest, collected
23 January 2004
, by
W. Leonard
,
M. Leonard
,
C. Richart
,
R
.
M. Pyle
, and
K. Novoselić
.
Diagnosis
: See under preceding species.
Etymology
: The species name honors Robert Michael Pyle, a notable lepidopterist, author, conservation advocate, and as is this species, denizen of the Willapa Hills.
Description
:
Male:
Length, 5.0 mm. Fourteen ocelli in oval-triangular group. Metazonital shoulders poorly developed; segmental setae curved, acute. Legpairs one, two reduced, pairs three, four encrassate, pairs five to seven near same size as postgonopodal legs; femora three, four with basal femoral knobs acute, posteriorly directed.Anterior gonopods (
ag
,
Figs. 244
,
245
) with large anterior sternum, widely separated, curving lateral to posterior gonopod coxites, apically decurved but without any apical expansion, small lateral branch tightly appressed to gonopod (free in
Fig. 245
due to compression on microscope slide). Posterior gonopod telopodites reduced but relatively larger than in
L. evergreen
;
posterior gonopod coxites (
pgc
,
Figs. 244
,
245
) short, broad, anteriorly cupped, with broad, lamellate process mesally, basal pseudoflagellum originating posteriorly, two processes distolaterally, more lateral process composed of filaments (seen as separate in
Fig. 246
due to compression on microscope slide), mesal process curved, apically fimbriate. Coxae 10, prefemora 11 as usual.
Female
5.2 mm
long, nonsexual characters as in male.
Distribution
:
WASHINGTON
:
Lewis Co.
, FS-25
8.5 mi
S of Randle,
46.4409°N
, -
121.9966°W
, elev.
330 m
,
21 December 2003
, W. Leonard, C. Richart m f; same as previous but
6 December 2003
, m.
Pacific Co.
, Cement Creek, SR-401
2.5 mi
S of Parpala Road in Naselle,
46.3341°N
, -
123.8002°W
, elev.
30 m
.
,
15 January 2006
, W. Leonard, C. Richart, from the litter of a riparian forest including
Alnus rubra
,
Picea sitchensis
,
Sambucus
cf.
caerulea
, and
Polystichum munitum
, m ff; Trap Creek Road
1.7 mi
S of SR-6, Trap Creek Basin,
46.5403°N
, -
123.6297°W
, elev.
60 m
.
,
19 November 2005
, W. Leonard, C. Richart, mm ff.
Wahkiakum Co.
, only known from the
type
locality.