Karagama, Shear & Richart & Wong, 2020

Shear, William A., Richart, Casey H. & Wong, Victoria L., 2020, The millipede family Conotylidae in northwestern North America, with a complete bibliography of the family (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Heterochordeumatidea, Conotyloidea), Zootaxa 4753 (1), pp. 1-78 : 28

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4753.1.1

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4341561

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Karagama
status

gen. nov.

Karagama View in CoL , new genus

Type species: Karagama ladybird View in CoL , n. sp.

Diagnosis: Differs from Taiyutyla View in CoL and the new genus Vancouvereuma View in CoL in the very simple, acuminate, curved coxites of the posterior gonopods, which lack a T-shaped branch but do have narrow fimbriate regions posteriorly, near a suppressed pore ( Figs. 107, 108 View FIGS , 110 View FIGS ). The anterior gonopods ( Figs. 105 View FIGS , 109 View FIGS ) are two-branched, similar to those of Bifurcatella View in CoL , n. gen. (see below) but the branches occupy distinctly anterior and posterior positions, rather than lateral and mesal, as in Bifurcatella View in CoL species.

Etymology: The genus name is an arbitrary combination of letters that should be treated as feminine in gender.

Included species: Besides the type, Karagama lupus ( Shear, 2004) , n. comb., and Karagama loftinae ( Shear & Krejca, 2011) , n. comb. are also included in the genus.

Notes: This genus is somewhat heterogeneous, particularly with regard to the anterior gonopod, which in the type species has the posterior branch tightly appressed to the anterior; while in the other two, it is well separated. Geography may present another problem, since the type species is from northern California (Redwood National Park) and the other two included species are from the southern Sierra Nevada and Vancouver Island . Nevertheless for the present, relying only on morphology, they seem to belong together .

The name of K. lupus does not change gender since the specific epithet is a noun in apposition rather than an adjective.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

Order

Chordeumatida

SubOrder

Heterochordeumatidea

SuperFamily

Conotyloidea

Family

Conotylidae

SubFamily

Conotylinae

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