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21, figs. 5ab. Chamberlin and Hoffman, 1958:184185.
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19, figs. 811.
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3
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(
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) and one 3 (
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) and two Ƥ (
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,
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collected by H. F. Loomis,
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, in Spring Valley on Mt. Tamalpais, Marin Co., California,
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.
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stated previously, the locations of one 3 and one Ƥ
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are unknown.
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<emphasis id="E4F65F5EFFE07C7E4ED5622D2767A32A" bold="true" box="[198,326,263,289]" pageId="7" pageNumber="46">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
With the characters of the genus (
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).
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<emphasis id="E4F65F5EFFE07C7E4ED5620727F0A34C" bold="true" box="[198,465,301,327]" pageId="7" pageNumber="46">Preserved coloration.</emphasis>
All specimens are uniformly light tawny yellow.
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<emphasis id="E4F65F5EFFE07C7E4ED56278270EA367" bold="true" box="[198,303,338,364]" pageId="7" pageNumber="46">Ecology.</emphasis>
According to
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, the
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were found beneath the surface layer of leaves over stony soil in thick oak woods. Habitat data were not provided for the Santa Cruz sample.
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Having seen a second sample of
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, I understand why it had not been recollected. The milliped is basically just a thread and, with its inconspicuous yellowish coloration, would be nearly impossible to spot intermingled among similarly shaped mycelial threads and twigs in the litter and humus. Unless a collector discovered a colony of individuals, whose wriggling and writhing caught his/her eye as may have happened to Loomis, (s)he would be unlikely to even notice
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. It is as inconspicuous and invisible as any diplopod that I have seen; individuals are no broader than the veins of the decaying leaves they inhabit.
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the Santa Cruz female was in a cave, perhaps it stood out in contrast against the bare substrate. Berlese sampling seems the most effective method of recovering
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, but unless individuals fall through lengthwise, they are long enough to be caught on the mesh and still not be detected.
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<emphasis id="E4F65F5EFFE07C7E4ED561C72746A10C" bold="true" box="[198,359,749,775]" pageId="7" pageNumber="46">Distribution.</emphasis>
Same as that of the genus (
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); the following new record is available.
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: CALIFORNIA:
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., Vanished River Cave, Davenport Limestone Quarry, ca.
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(
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) ENE Santa Cruz (city), Ƥ,
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, D. Clardy (CAS).
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<emphasis id="E4F65F5EFFE07C7E4ED760772761A17C" bold="true" box="[196,320,861,887]" pageId="7" pageNumber="46">Remarks.</emphasis>
The Santa Cruz female is
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long, 1.4 mm wide, and has + 97 segments including the epiproct. I counted 55 segments on the
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, which brings the total to 63 when the (at least) eight missing segments are added; it measured approximately 15.0 mm long and 0.6 mm wide.
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reported a male with 64 segments, which must be the
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that is missing the head and the nine, rather than eight, anteriormost segments. I counted 81 segments including the epiproct on the NMNH female
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, which is consistent with the 80 segmented female cited by the authors. Its anterior end (head and ca. 10 segments) was tightly coiled against the venter, and I obtained measurements of 25.4 mm in length and 1.3 mm in width.
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<emphasis id="E4F65F5EFFE07C7E4ED767A22799A6AA" box="[196,440,1160,1185]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="46">Mitocybe auriportae</emphasis>
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is a long, thread-like, dorsoventrally flattened milliped with truly glabrous prozona and metaterga that are so densely pubescent as to appear glabrous in dorsal view. The pubescence is so dense that it does not appear to exist; the short, fine hairs are packed so tightly that they are indistinguishable in dorsal view and are best detected in profile (
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). The milliped has short but distinct paranota (
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), in contrast to the characterization in the tribal diagnosis (
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).
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The Santa Cruz female could represent a new species, but this cannot be determined without males, and I assign it to
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<emphasis id="E4F65F5EFFE07C7E4F0E664227E0A78A" box="[285,449,1384,1409]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="46">M. auriportae</emphasis>
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. With the absence of external ornamentation, there is little structure to describe, and species distinctions in
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should be based on gonopodal details.
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