Published November 19, 2025 | Version v1

Cleidogona jocassee Hoffman 1950

  • 1. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA, USA 31061
  • 2. Professor Emeritus, Department of Biology, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney VA 23943 USA, current address: 1950 Price Drive, Farmville, VA 23901 USA

Description

Cleidogona jocassee Hoffman, 1950a NEW PARK RECORD

Cleidogona jocassee Hoffman, 1950a: 19–21, pl. 7, fig. 15–18— Shear (1972: 229, figs 316–319), Snyder (2008: 29)

Material Examined: NORTH CAROLINA: Haywood Co., Purchase Knob ATBI Plot, 35° 35’ 31” N 83° 3’ 37” W: pitfall trap 35, 22 May–8 Jun 2001, 1 male; pitfall trap 36, 18 Jun–3 Jul 2002, 1 male, 1 female, 1 immature; pitfall trap 40, 23 Apr–15 May 2001, I. C. Stocks, 1 male; pitfall trap 38, 8 May–4 Jun 2002, P. E. Super & J. Lowe, 1 male; pitfall trap 37, 26 Apr–8 May 2002, 1 male; pitfall trap 38, 18 Jun–3 Jul 2002, J. & D. Lowe, 2 males.

Remarks. Cleidogona jocassee was recorded as likely to be in GSMNP by Snyder (2008) since it was known from Haywood and Swain Cos., North Carolina, but outside the GSMNP boundary (Shear 1972). It is now documented from Purchase Knob.

Notes

Published as part of Snyder, Bruce A. & Shear, William A., 2025, Four new species of Cleidogona Cook & Collins, 1895 (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Cleidogonidae) from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA, pp. 249-264 in Zootaxa 5722 (2) on page 252, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5722.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/17892041

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ATBI
Event date
2001-05-22
Verbatim event date
2001-05-22/06-08
Scientific name authorship
Hoffman
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Chordeumatida
Family
Cleidogonidae
Genus
Cleidogona
Species
jocassee
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cleidogona jocassee Hoffman, 1950 sec. Snyder & Shear, 2025

References

  • Hoffman, R. L. (1950 a) Records and descriptions of Diplopods from the southern Appalachians. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, 66, 11-33.
  • Shear, W. A. (1972) Studies in the milliped order Chordeumida (Diplopoda): A revision of the family Cleidogonidae and a reclassification of the order Chordeumida in the New World. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 144, 151-352.
  • Snyder, B. A. (2008) A preliminary checklist of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA. Zootaxa, 1856 (1), 16-32. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1856.1.2