Lamparia curryensis Shear & Marek 2022, n. sp.
Creators: name: Shear, William A.
name: Marek, Paul E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Chordeumatida
Striariidae
Lamparia
Lamparia curryensis

description: Lamparia curryensis Shear & Marek, n. sp.
Figs 16–19, 49–51
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; 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.
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 with Figs 63, 64) and in the much longer coxosternal process of the ninth legs (Fig. 19, cp). The sixth crests of this species are nearly twice as high as those of L. bentonensis n. sp. (compare Figs 17, 18 with Figs 20, 21).
Description: Male holotype. Length, 4.8 mm, width 0.48 mm. Two black ommatidia on each side of head (Fig. 16, om). Sixth crests well extended as broad paranota (Figs 17, 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, 61, 62) moderately large. Coxae with 3 setae, bulbous (Fig. 61, cx). Anterior angiocoxites narrow, erect, with flattened, bulbous tip, posterior surface finely fimbriate from base to just below bulbous tip (Figs 19, 61, 62, aac). Posterior angiocoxite complex (Fig. 62, pac) with two branches. Flagellocoxite possibly not sheathed. Two flagellocoxites, each narrow, slightly curved, comparatively short (Figs 61, 62, fc). Colpocoxite large and bulbous, shifted anteriomesally, densely set with triangular, fine cuticular teeth (Fig. 62, cc). Ninth legs with coxosternum. Coxosternal processes (Fig. 19, cp) flattened, elongate, distally slightly expanded. Telopodites (Fig. 19, 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.
description: Published as part of 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), pp. 501-531 in Zootaxa 5205 (6) on page 512, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5205.6.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7318605