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Amplaria eldora Chamberlin 1953

  • 1. Professor Emeritus, Department of Biology, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney VA 23943 USA, current address: 1950 Price Drive, Farmville VA 23901 USA.
  • 2. Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA 24061 USA.

Description

Amplaria eldora Chamberlin, 1953

Striaria eldora Chamberlin, 1953a, Ent. News 64: 95. Three female syntypes from Crystal Cosumnes Cave, Eldorado Co., California, repository unknown. Hoffman, 1999, Virginia Mus. Nat. Hist. Special Publ. 8: 209 (as Striaria eldora). Shear & Krejca, 2007, Zootaxa 1532: 27. Hoffman (1999) mistakenly refers to a holotype male, possibly deposited in USNMNH, but no such specimen could be located there. Chamberlin (1953b) mentioned a male specimen from Grapevine Cave in Calaveras Co., California (USNMNH) and this specimen was labeled at some point, probably by Hoffman, as a paratype although no published designation as such was ever made. Shear & Krejca based their concept of A. eldora on the Grapevine Cave specimen. Amplaria eutypa Chamberlin 1941, the type species of the genus, was collected nearby and Shear & Krejca thought that S. eldora is likely to be a junior synonym. This species has not been recollected and remains known only from the two above mentioned localities.

Notes

Published as part of Shear, William A. & Marek, Paul E., 2024, The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893. IX. The identity of Striaria californica Cook, 1899, and the new genus Bayaria for Striaria nana Loomis, 1936, with a key to genera and an annotated checklist of the Striariidae (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea), pp. 524-544 in Zootaxa 5463 (4) on page 534, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5463.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/11612167

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Chamberlin
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Chordeumatida
Family
Striariidae
Genus
Amplaria
Species
eldora
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Amplaria eldora Chamberlin, 1953 sec. Shear & Marek, 2024

References

  • Chamberlin, R. V. (1953 a) Two new millipeds taken in California caves. Entomological News, 64, 93 - 95. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 2563338]
  • Hoffman, R. L. (1999) Checklist of the Millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication, 8, 1 - 584. [https: // www. datocms-assets. com / 44232 / 1632764780 - hoffmanchecklist 1999. pdf]
  • Shear, W. A. & Krejca, J. K. (2007) Revalidation of the milliped genus Amplaria Chamberlin 1941 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striariidae), and description of two new species from caves in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California. Zootaxa, 1532 (1), 23 - 39. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1532.1.2
  • Chamberlin, R. V. (1953 b) Six new American millipeds, with notes on several cave-dwelling species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 66, 67 - 72. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 36184976]
  • Chamberlin, R. V. (1941) New western millipeds. Bulletin of the University of Utah, 31 (2), Biological Series, 6, 3 - 23. [https: // core. ac. uk / download / pdf / 276282368. pdf]