Lamparia curryensis Shear & Marek, 2022

Shear, William A. & Marek, Paul E., 2022, The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893. VI. Six new genera and thirteen new species from western North America (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea), Zootaxa 5205 (6), pp. 501-531 : 512

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5205.6.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9D1DEC25-5FA2-4D64-807E-F103C3FCB5CA
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7318655
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F89303-FFB7-FFBA-9AF9-2DA3E1EBF89E
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Lamparia curryensis Shear & Marek
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Lamparia curryensis Shear & Marek , n. sp.

Figs 16–19 View FIGURES 16–18 View FIGURES 19–24 , 49–51 View FIGURES 49–55

Types: Male holotype from NE of Brookings Curry Co., Oregon, north bend of Chetco River Road , 0.6 mi NW of entrance to Alfred A. Loeb State Park , Redwood Nature Trail , 135’ asl, 42.1187°N, - 124.1959°W, collected 4 January 2011 by C. Richart et al; GoogleMaps male and female paratypes from 13 mi W, 5 mi N of Brookings, T39S, R14W, S5 (42.1239°N, - 124.0141°W), 2000’ asl, collected 12 February 1972 by E. M. Benedict. All material deposited in CAS; male holotype is on SEM stub WS35-13 GoogleMaps .

Etymology: The species epithet refers to Curry County, Oregon, which includes both known collection localities for this species.

Diagnosis: Obviously close to L. bentonensis , n. sp., but distinct in details of the gonopods (compare Figs 61, 62 View FIGURES 56–62 with Figs 63, 64 View FIGURES 63–70 ) and in the much longer coxosternal process of the ninth legs ( Fig. 19 View FIGURES 19–24 , cp). The sixth crests of this species are nearly twice as high as those of L. bentonensis n. sp. (compare Figs 17, 18 View FIGURES 16–18 with Figs 20, 21 View FIGURES 19–24 ).

Description: Male holotype. Length, 4.8 mm, width 0.48 mm. Two black ommatidia on each side of head ( Fig. 16 View FIGURES 16–18 , om). Sixth crests well extended as broad paranota ( Figs 17, 18 View FIGURES 16–18 ). Telson lobes nearly completely suppressed. Metazonital setae not seen, absent or concealed by heavy cerotegument. Color white to pale tan, faintly suffused pale purplish brown. Flasks of third coxae long, when extended posteriorly reaching to anterior margin of seventh coxae. Other characters as described for genus.

Gonopods ( Figs 19 View FIGURES 19–24 , 61, 62 View FIGURES 56–62 ) moderately large. Coxae with 3 setae, bulbous ( Fig. 61 View FIGURES 56–62 , cx). Anterior angiocoxites narrow, erect, with flattened, bulbous tip, posterior surface finely fimbriate from base to just below bulbous tip ( Figs 19 View FIGURES 19–24 , 61, 62 View FIGURES 56–62 , aac). Posterior angiocoxite complex ( Fig. 62 View FIGURES 56–62 , pac) with two branches. Flagellocoxite possibly not sheathed. Two flagellocoxites, each narrow, slightly curved, comparatively short ( Figs 61, 62 View FIGURES 56–62 , fc). Colpocoxite large and bulbous, shifted anteriomesally, densely set with triangular, fine cuticular teeth ( Fig. 62 View FIGURES 56–62 , cc). Ninth legs with coxosternum. Coxosternal processes ( Fig. 19 View FIGURES 19–24 , cp) flattened, elongate, distally slightly expanded. Telopodites ( Fig. 19 View FIGURES 19–24 , tp) free, apically flattened, mesally curved anteriorly, with sawtooth edges, interlocking with gonopods, laterally fitting into shallow indentations in ventrolateral edges of seventh ring. Tenth coxae not much swollen, gland openings anteriodorsal.

Female paratypes similar to males in nonsexual characters.

Distribution: Presently known from two nearby localities in Curry Co., Oregon.

Note: Additional collecting is required to establish the distribution of this species and the following one. They are evidently closely related and may in fact be variants of a single species.