Caseya megasoma Gardner & Shelley 1989

Shear, William A. & Leonard, William P., 2007, Additions to the milliped family Caseyidae. I. Caseya richarti, n. sp., and new records of previously described species in the genus Caseya Cook and Collins 1895 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Caseyidae), Zootaxa 1524, pp. 23-34 : 32

Caseya megasoma Gardner & Shelley 1989

Caseya megasoma Garnder & Shelley 1989:252 .

The type locality for C. megasoma is along Oregon Rt. 34 at the Benton/Lincoln Co. line. Gardner and Shelley (1989) list two additional Benton Co. localities and a more northerly occurrence in Tillamook Co. However, their map (their Fig. 223) shows only two Benton Co. localities, one of which is on the Lincoln Co. boundary, and also a Lincoln Co. locality near the estuary of the Alsea River. Caseya westcotti Gardner & Shelley 1989 is also known from a Lincoln Co. locality well separated from the main body of that species’ distribution; future collecting may show the two species to be broadly sympatric.

New Record: Oregon: Benton Co.: Clemons Park, 0.3 mi on Seely Creek Road from Oregon Rt. 34, North Fork of Alsea River, N44°24.55’ W123°34.07’, 400’ asl, 4 December 2005, W. P. Leonard, C. Richart (FMNH).