Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 1693 No. 1: 31 Jan. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-01-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1693.1.3
Page range: 41–48
Abstract views: 40
PDF downloaded: 19

Cave millipeds of the United States. VI. Sequoiadesmus krejcae, n. gen., n. sp., from Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California, USA (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Polydesmidea, Macrosternodesmidae)

Biology Department, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943, USA
Research Lab., North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, 4301 Reedy Creek Rd., Raleigh, NC 27607, USA
Myriapoda Trichopolydesmoidea Polydesmoidea Macrosternodesmidae Polydesmidae Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks

Abstract

Sequoiadesmus krejcae, n. gen., n. sp., a minute, depigmented polydesmidan milliped, is described from caves in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Tulare County, California. It is provisionally assigned to the Macrosternodesmidae pending further research on representatives of the polydesmidean superfamilies Polydesmoidea and Trichopolydesmoidea in the western United States. Attributes of Macrosternodesmidae, Nearctodesmidae (Trichopolydesmoidea) and Polydesmidae (Polydesmoidea) are compared and contrasted.

References

  1. Hoffman, R.L. (1975) A new genus and species in the diplopod family Nearctodesmidae from Mexico, with a proposed classification of the suborder Polydesmidea. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 82(3), 647–654.

    Hoffman, R.L. (1980 [1979]) Classification of the Diplopoda. Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Genève, Switzerland, 237 pp.

    Hoffman, R.L. (1982) Diplopoda, In: Parker, S.B., ed., Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms, 2, 689–724.

    Hoffman, R.L. (1999) Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication Number 8, 1–584.

    Lewis, J.J. (2002) Chaetaspis aleyorum, a new species of milliped from Tumbling Creek Cave, Missouri, with a synopsis of the cavernicolous species of Chaetaspis (Diplopoda: Polydesmida). Myriapodologica, 7(11), 101–111.

    Loomis, H.F. (1960) Millipeds of the order Polydesmida from the western states and Baja California. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 33(2), 57–68.

    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, 23–39.

    Shear, W.A., & Shelley, R.M. (2007) The milliped genus Tidesmus Chamberlin, 1943 (Polydesmida: Macrosternodesmidae). Zootaxa, 1656, 51–68.

    Shelley, R.M. (1993) Harpagonopus confluentus Loomis, a Pacific Coast milliped of the United States and Mexico (Polydesmida: Trichopolydesmoidea). Myriapodologica, 2(11), 73–81.

    Shelley, R.M. (1994) The milliped family Nearctodesmidae in northwestern North America, with accounts of Sakophallus and S. simplex Chamberlin (Polydesmida). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 72, 470–495.

    Shelley, R.M. (2003a) A new polydesmid milliped genus and two new species from Oregon and Washington, U.S.A., with a review of Bidentogon Buckett and Gardner, 1968, and a summary of the family in western North America (Polydesmida: Polydesmidae). Zootaxa, 296, 1–12.

    Shelley, R.M. (2003b [2002]) A revised, annotated, family-level classification of the Diplopoda. Arthropoda Selecta, 11(3), 187–207.

    Shelley, R.M., & Shear, W.A. (2006) Leonardesmus injucundus, n. gen., n. sp., an aromatic, small-bodied milliped from Washington State, U.S.A., and a revised account of the family Nearctodesmidae (Polydesmida). Zootaxa, 1176, 1–16.

    Simonsen, Å. (1990) Phylogeny and biogeography of the millipede order Polydesmida, with special emphasis on the suborder Polydesmidea. Museum of Zoology, University of Bergen, Norway, 114 pp.