Loomisiella pylei, Shear & Richart & Wong, 2020

Shear, William A., Richart, Casey H. & Wong, Victoria L., 2020, The millipede family Conotylidae in northwestern North America, with a complete bibliography of the family (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Heterochordeumatidea, Conotyloidea), Zootaxa 4753 (1), pp. 1-78 : 69

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4753.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AA9F66B3-EF8C-4F6B-8F35-0BCBEE5122ED

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4341573

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/131D87EF-FFED-FFDC-FFDC-5F98FA84FBA9

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scientific name

Loomisiella pylei
status

sp. nov.

Loomisiella pylei View in CoL , new species

Figs. 244–246 View FIGS View FIGS

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 GoogleMaps .

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 View FIGS , 245 View FIGS ) 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 View FIGS due to compression on microscope slide). Posterior gonopod telopodites reduced but relatively larger than in L. evergreen ; posterior gonopod coxites (pgc, Figs. 244 View FIGS , 245 View FIGS ) 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 View FIGS 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.

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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

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