Rampalia Shear & Marek, 2022

Shear, William A. & Marek, Paul E., 2022, The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893. VI. Six new genera and thirteen new species from western North America (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea), Zootaxa 5205 (6), pp. 501-531 : 517

Rampalia Shear & Marek , new genus

Type species: Rampalia cheathamensis Shear & Marek , n. sp.

Etymology: The genus name is an arbitrary combination of letters, an anagram of the related genus name Amplaria forming a Latin neologism to be treated as feminine in gender.

Diagnosis: A genus of the subfamily Striariinae by virtue of having gonopods with a flagellocoxite and ninth legs with free telopodites. The gonopod flagellocoxite is inconspicuous. The anterior angiocoxites are erect and fused, a character unique in the family, while the posterior angiocoxites appear to be reduced to just a sheath for the single, small flagellocoxite. The ninth legs are distinctive in the bifurcate coxosternal process and the rather small, elongate telopodites bearing a subterminal lobe.

Description: See the description of the single known species, below.

Included species: Only the type species.

Distribution: Humboldt County, California.