Distribution Extensions of the Milliped Families Conotylidae and Rhiscosomididae (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida) into Northern Coastal British Columbia and Southern Alaska

Authors

Rowland Shelley, North Carolina State Museum of Natural SciencesFollow
Michael Medrano, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
William Shear, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden Sydney, VAFollow
Kristiina Ovaska, Victoria, BC V9E 2B7, Canada
Ken J. White, British Columbia Ministry of Forests
Erin Havard, British Columbia Ministry of Forests

Date of this Version

4-10-2009

Comments

Published in INSECTA MUNDI: A Journal of World Insect Systematics, # 0071 (2009). Published by the Center for Systematic Entomology, Inc., Gainesville, FL. http://www.centerforsystematicentomology.org/ Copyright © 2009 by the authors.

Abstract

Two samples of the chordeumatidan family Rhiscosomididae (Rhiscosomides mineri Silvestri, 1909) and 35 of the Conotylidae establish these taxa in the Alexander Archipelago and continental parts of the Alaskan Panhandle, USA, and northern coastal British Columbia (BC), Canada. Rhiscosomides mineri is also recorded from southwestern BC and, for the first time, from Washington State, USA. Two conotylids were recovered, a juvenile male of ?Bollmanella Chamberlin, 1941, and 3 males and 33 females of a possibly parthenogenetic form of Taiyutyla Chamberlin, 1952, conforming generally to T. shawi and T. lupus, both by Shear, 2004, on Vancouver Island. Diplopoda are predicted to inhabit the southern Yukon Territory.