Striaria bombillus Shear 2021
- Dataset
- The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893: III. Four new species of Striaria Bollman, 1888 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striariidae) from Idaho, USA
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Shear, William A. (2021): The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893: III. Four new species of Striaria Bollman, 1888 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striariidae) from Idaho, USA. Zootaxa 4920 (3): 395-406, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4920.3.5
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Diplopoda
- order
- Chordeumatida
- family
- Striariidae
- genus
- Striaria
- species
- Striaria bombillus
description
Description: Male holotype. Length, about 11 mm, width about 1.0 mm. Body form and secondary sexual characters as for the genus and Striaria aculeata, see above. Gonopod anterior angiocoxites (Figs 25, 26) sharply bent posteriorad about two thirds their length at pronounced transverse ridge, proximal to ridge are 2 or 3 distinct rugae; tip (Figs 27, 28) with a few long spinules mesal, more laterally are more numerous but lower spinules in single row. Posterior angiocoxites robust, sheathing three or four flagellocoxites, lacking hook-like process seen in S. aculeata. Ninth legs as in S. aculeata. Female paratype: Similar to male but without secondary sexual modifications; pygidium short, broad (Fig. 17).
description
Figs 14 – 17, 25 – 28 Types: Male holotype and two female paratypes from Little Bumblebee Creek, 47.6238 °, - 116.2972 °, Shoshone Co., Idaho, collected 11 April 2003 by W. Leonard, deposited in the California Academy of Sciences. Parts of the holotype are mounted on SEM stub WS 34 - 5, deposited with the specimens.
diagnosis
Diagnosis: Similar to the preceding species, but differing in the fewer, shorter, less curved spinules and in lacking a lateral process of the anterior angiocoxites; possibly the lateral process has shifted somewhat to the mesal side of the anterior angiocoxites.
distribution
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
etymology
Etymology: The species epithet is a Latin noun in apposition, diminuitive of bombus, a bumblebee, and refers to Little Bumblebee Creek, the type locality.
Name
- Homonyms
- Striaria bombillus Shear 2021