Pseudotremia tuberculata 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 : 18

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.279260

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6186443

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C47A60-FFC4-7253-60C0-5F017D5C78B2

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scientific name

Pseudotremia tuberculata Loomis
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Pseudotremia tuberculata Loomis View in CoL

P. tuberculata Loomis 1939 View in CoL , p. 171; Shear, 1972, p. 184.

Type locality: Cassel Farm Cave, Burkes Garden, Tazewell Co., VIRGINIA. Male holotype in MCZ.

New records: VIRGINIA: Tazewell Co.: Higginbotham’s Cave #1, 29 October 1994, D. Hubbard, 3, ƤƤ; Cassell Farm Cave #2, 2 March 2000, D. Hubbard, 3 ƤƤ; Fallen Rock Cave, 5 mi SE of Pounding Mill, 12 August 1977, J. Holsinger, L. Ferguson, 3 ff; Steele’s Cave, 15 August 1977, J. Holsinger, D. Culver, 3 ƤƤ; Chimney Rock Cave, 29 February 2000, D. Hubbard, 3; Hugh Young Cave, 2.5 mi SW of Liberty, 30 April 1972, J. Holsinger. Russell Co.: Carpender’s Cave, 8 April 1997, D. Hubbard, 3; Smith Cave, 16 August 1972, J. Holsinger, D. Culver, 3 ƤƤ; Ward’s Cove Cave, 15 February 2005, W. Orndorff, 3; Amos Cave, 4 May 1999, D. Hubbard, 3 Ƥ.

Notes: Pseudotremia tuberculata is a troglophilic species, one of the larger ones at about 30 mm in length for males, and with very rough tuberculation of the metazonites. It appears to dominate in the upper reaches of the Clinch River drainage. Burkes Garden and Elk Garden are two anticlinal valleys (these are called “gardens” in southwest Virginia) formed when erosion breached the broad tops of sandstone and shale ridges, exposing limestone beneath which rapidly eroded to produce a closed basin, or one with only a single outlet. Most of the drainage in these “gardens” is subterranean.

MCZ

Museum of Comparative Zoology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

Order

Chordeumatida

Family

Cleidogonidae

Genus

Pseudotremia

Loc

Pseudotremia tuberculata Loomis

Shear, William A. 2011
2011
Loc

P. tuberculata

Loomis 1939
1939
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