Pseudotremia valga Loomis

Shear, William A., 2011, Cave millipeds of the United States. X. New species and records of the genus Pseudotremia Cope. 2. Species from Virginia, USA (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Cleidogonidae), Zootaxa 3109, pp. 1-38 : 29

Pseudotremia valga Loomis

Figs. 85–90

P. v a l g a Loomis 1943, p. 377. Shear, 1972, p. 173.

Type locality: “King Solomon’s Cave,” Lee Co., VIRGINIA. Male holotype in MCZ.

New records: VIRGINIA: Lee Co.: Smith Cave, 6 mi ESE of Rose Hill, 19 July 1979, J. Holsinger, 3, ƤƤ; 21 April 1973, D. Culver et al., 3; Cumberland Gap Saltpetre Cave, 1.4 mi NE Cumberland Gap, 15 July 1979, J. Holsinger, m.

Notes: “King Solomon’s Cave” was cited by Loomis in the original description as being located in Cumberland Gap, Claiborne Co., Tennessee. However, the former “King Solomon’s Cave” is now known as Cudjo’s Cave, or Gap Cave, and is located in Lee Co., Virginia. The town of Cumberland Gap is in Virginia. The cave is operated as a tourist attraction by Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. The first collection of this species was made in 1924 ( Loomis 1943) and Barr collected a male at the type locality in 1958 ( Shear 1972). Pseudotremia valga is a troglophile, well-pigmented and with 20–22 black ocelli. A typical metazonite (figs. 88, 90), the gonopods (figs. 86, 89) and right ninth leg (fig. 87) are illustrated here.

Figures

FIGURES 80 – 85. Previously described species of Pseudotremia. Figs. 80 – 84, Pseudotremia nodosa. Fig. 80, ocelli. Fig. 81, metazonite, dorsal view. Fig. 82, gonopods, anterior view; cc, colpocoxite; lap, lateral angiocoxite process; map, median angiocoxite process. Fig. 83, gonopods, lateral view; map, median angiocoxite process; vcp, ventral colpocoxite process. Fig. 84, gonopods, ventral view; labels as in figs. 83, 84. Fig. 85, P. valga, anterior end of male, lateral view.

FIGURES 86 – 91. New and previously described species of Pseudotremia. Figs. 86 – 90, Pseudotremia valga. Fig. 86, gonopods, lateral view. Fig. 87, right ninth leg, anterior view. Fig. 88, metazonite, lateral view. Fig. 89, gonopods, anterior view. Fig. 90, metazonite, dorsal view. Fig. 91, P. piscator, n. sp., metazonite, dorsal view.