Rowlandesmus millicoma Shear & Marek 2021, n. sp.
Creators
- 1. Professor Emeritus, Department of Biology, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney VA 23943; present address 1950 Price Drive, Farmville VA 23901.
- 2. Associate Professor, Department of Entomology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061. pmarek @ vt. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7048 - 2514
Description
Rowlandesmus millicoma Shear & Marek, n. sp.
Figs 85–90, 131
Types. Male holotype and male and female paratypes from 14 mi. E, 2 mi. S of Allegany, Weyerhauser Millicoma Tree Farm, company Road 6000, riparian zone of Fall Creek, 43.3983°, -123.7770°, Coos Co., Oregon, collected 23 November 1971 by E. M. Benedict. All types deposited in CAS.
Diagnosis. Distinct from R. dentogonopus in lacking prominent teeth in the terminal zone of the gonopod and in the more basal position and larger extent of the pulvillus (p, Fig. 90).
Etymology. The species name is a noun in apposition and refers to the type locality, the Millicoma Tree Farm.
Description. Male holotype. Length about 3.5 mm, greatest width 0.45 mm. Head densely setose, cuticle alveolate (Fig. 85). Collum with anterior marginal row of 20 setae (Fig 85). Anterior metazonites with three rows of setae, transitioning to four rows about ring 5, setal tubercles low on anterior segments, becoming almost obsolete on midbody (Fig. 86) to posterior rings; some rings with interpolated setae nearly forming fifth row. Alveolate cuticle absent from metazonites posterior to collum. Epiproct (Fig. 87) swollen, short, decurved, lacking alveolate cuticle. Anterior legs crassate, tarsi with sphaerotrichomes. Femur of third leg slightly enlarged. Gonopod (Figs 88–90, 131) with moderately inflated prefemorite. Acropodite short, robust. Pulvillus (p, Figs 88, 90) basal, enlarged, pulvillar process absent. Terminal zone bifurcate, longer distal process (z, Fig. 88) narrow at base, then broadened, bent posteriorly at slightly less than right angle, crossing lateral to shorter basal process (x, Fig. 88). Females similar to males in nonsexual characters.
Distribution. Coos Co., Oregon.
Records: OREGON: Coos Co.: 11 mi east, 4 mi south of Allegany, Weyerhauser Millicoma Tree Farm, company road 6040, 43.3429°, -123.8435°, 21 November 1971, E. M. Benedict, mm; 6 mi east, 2 mi south of Allegany, Weyerhauser Millicoma Tree Farm, company road 5000, 43.3944°, -123.9111°, 20 November 1971, E. M. Benedict, m, f; 6 mi east of Allegany, Game Commission cabin, 43.4311°, -123.9094°, 20 November 1971, E. M. Benedict, mm.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CAS
- Event date
- 1971-11-23
- Family
- Polydesmidae
- Genus
- Rowlandesmus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Polydesmida
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Shear & Marek
- Species
- millicoma
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1971-11-23
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rowlandesmus millicoma Shear & Marek, 2021