Amplaria muiri
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Genus: Amplaria
Name
Amplaria muiri Shear, William A., 2007 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Amplaria muiri Shear, William A., 2007, Zootaxa 1532: 28-35.
Description
Types:Male holotype and female and male paratypes from Crystal Cave, Sequoia National Park, Tulare Co., California, collected 15 July 2003 by Jean Krejca, V. Loftin and S. Fryer, deposited in Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (FMNH).
Diagnosis
Diagnosis: Distinct from the nearby A. adamsi,n. sp., in the larger size, fewer ocelli, paler pigmentation, and details of the gonopods as illustrated.
Etymology
Etymology: After John Muir, famous naturalist of the late nineteeth and early twentieth century, whose name is forever connected with the Sierra Nevada, which he called “the Range of Light.”
Description
Description:Male. Length, 16.5 mm, width, 1.2 mm. Three, four or five small, irregularly shaped black ocelli in one or two rows. Crest 6 (lateralmost) of collum incomplete, obscure; more prominent on metazonites 2, 3, complete on metazonite 4. Segmental setae of collum to metazonite 5 aciculate, twice as long as intercrest distance, becoming shorter from metazonite 6 posterior, blunt, subclavate, as long as intercrest distance or shorter. Epiproct broad, spatulate. Color of most specimens yellowish white (Figs. 24, 26, 27), few have slight reticulate pattern of pale purplish brown on posterior margins of metazonites 24–29 and epiproct; legs and antennae white. Secondary sexual modifications as described for genus. Gonopods (Figs. 7–11) robust, anterior angiocoxites appressed in midline, apically with three unequal teeth, deltoid lateral branch sharply, evenly curved; posterior angiocoxites with flagellar sheathing branch stout, apically flaring, posterior branch inflated, with curved, toothed ridge. Colpocoxites typical of genus (note: poorly sclerotized lateral lobe of colpocoxite collapses in SEM preparation). Legpair 9 as in Fig. 15. Female: length, 15.2 mm, width, 1.0 mm. Except for secondary sexual characters, much as male.
Cave Date Collectors Collection number Species Notes Hidden15-Nov-03J. Krejca, V. Loftin JKK-302-B1Amplaria adamsi male Overhang29-Apr-04J. Krejca, P. Sprouse JKK-22-C9Amplaria adamsi juvenile Overhang29-Apr-04J. Krejca, P. Sprouse JKK-25-C6Amplaria adamsi female Overhang29-Apr-04J. Krejca, P. Sprouse JKK-24-C4Amplaria adamsi male Bear Den17-Jul-03J. Krejca, V. Loftin, S. Fryer JKK-33-A3Amplaria muiri male Bear Den18-Jul-03J. Krejca, V. Loftin, S. Fryer, C. Walck JKK-333-A1Amplaria muiri2 males, female Bear Den1-May-04J. Krejca, J. Snow, A. Snow, P Sprouse JKK-43-C2Amplaria muiri2 penultimate instar males Bear Den1-May-04J. Krejca, J. Snow, A. Snow, P Sprouse JKK-40-C6Amplaria muiri5 males, 3 females Carmoe Crevice18-Nov-03J. Krejca, V. Loftin JKK-331-B2Amplaria muiri2 females, 4 juveniles Carmoe Crevice18-Nov-03J. Krejca, V. Loftin JKK-335-B1Amplaria muiri2 males, female, juvenile Carmoe Crevice18-Nov-03J. Krejca, V. Loftin JKK-330-B1Amplaria muiri3 males Carmoe Crevice5-Jul-04J. Krejca, A. Gluesenkamp JKK-1-D1Amplaria muiri2 males, female Clough19-Nov-03J. Krejca, V. Loftin JKK-341-B1Amplaria adamsi penultimate male Clough19-Nov-03J. Krejca, V. Loftin JKK-340-B9Amplaria adamsi2 males, 2 females Clough27-Apr-04J. Krejca, P. Sprouse et al JKK-3-C11Amplaria adamsi2 females Clough27-Apr-04J. Krejca, P. Sprouse et al JKK-2-C7Amplaria adamsi female Clough27-Apr-04J. Krejca, P. Sprouse et al JKK-1-C14Amplaria adamsi juvenile Crystal15-Jul-03J. Krejca, V. Loftin, S. Fryer JKK-003-A1Amplaria muiri15 specimens, type series Crystal15-Jul-03J. Krejca, V. Loftin, S. Fryer, D. Boiano JKK-005-A2Amplaria muiri male, female Crystal17-Jul-03J. Krejca, V. Loftin JKK-021-A1Amplaria muiri3 males, females Crystal17-Jul-03J. Krejca, V. Loftin JKK-027-A2Amplaria muiri5 females Hurricane Crawl16-Jul-03J. Krejca, S. Fryer, A. Snow, V. Loftin JKK-17-A5Amplaria muiri very small juvenile Hurricane Crawl16-Jul-03J. Krejca, S. Fryer, A. Snow, V. Loftin JKK-18-A3Amplaria muiri female Hurricane Crawl16-Jul-03J. Krejca, S. Fryer, A. Snow, V. Loftin JKK-10-A1Amplaria muiri female Hurricane Crawl9-Jul-04J. Krejca, A. Gluesenkamp et al JKK-47-D2Amplaria muiri2 males, female Hurricane Crawl9-Jul-04J. Krejca, A. Gluesenkamp et al JKK-47-D3Amplaria muiri very small juvenile Hurricane Crawl9-Jul-04J. Krejca, A. Gluesenkamp et al JKK-44-D2Amplaria muiri2 males, 2 females to be contineud.
Distribution
Distribution; See Table 1 and fig. 23. Habitat, abundance and life history: Eighty-four specimens from Bear Den Cave, Carmoe Crevice, Crystal Cave, Hurricane Crawl Cave, Lange Cave, and Pet Cemetery Cave were positively identified, and another nine immature and female specimens from Lilburn Cave and Weisraum Cave were tentatively identified (Table 1), and the following data are based on those 93 individuals. Air temperatures were recorded for 75 of those collections and the average air temperature where specimens were collected was 10.4 deg C (range = 8.3 to 12.5 deg C). Substrates were recorded for 37 of those collections: 43 % (16 / 37) were found on a silt floor, 24 % (9 / 37) were found on a dead small mammal, 16 % (6 / 37) were found on roots, 11 % (4 / 37) were found on calcite, and 5 % (2 / 37) were found under a rock. Of those 37 collections, 73 % (27 / 37) were associated with some kind of energy source, including fungus, roots, a dead mammal or bait on a pitfall trap. For all 93 specimens, the average distance they were found into the cave was 80 m (range = 0 to 166 m). Also on average one A. muiri was found per 7 linear meters of cave passage (range = 1 m to 48 m). For 82 specimens with records of search effort, on average 18 person minutes were spent to find one millipede (range = 4 to 98 person minutes). On two occasions Amplaria muiri were observed mating (Fig. 27). On 15 July 2003, two individuals in the Whitewash Canyon section of Crystal Cave were observed mating on a fluffy sandy silt floor. On 13 October 2006, two individuals in the passage below the rope drop of Carmoe Crevice were observed mating on a gravel floor. A third individual was nearby and probably involved, as it was seen curled up so that its mouth was near its gonopods. Also on 13 October 2006, an unusual abundance of individuals were seen feeding on the seed of a California Bay Laurel, Umbellularia californica. Approximately thirty individuals were seen within 5 meters of the food item, and this abundance of prey also probably attracted a potential predator, the salamander Ensatina eschscholtzii (Fig. 26). Methods for habitat, abundance and life history: Temperatures were measured using an alcohol thermometer, and they were measured at locations in the same area of the cave the specimen was taken from, but not always exactly at that spot. Distances into the cave were calculated from survey stations measured during cave mapping, and these represent actual line of travel through the cave, not a straight line distance to the entrance that may be impossible to follow because it is through bedrock. The distance each organism was found into the cave was calculated for the search area the specimen was found in. The search area is bound by two survey stations, and if the closest survey station to the entrance is 10 meters into the cave and the farthest one is 20 m into the cave, the distance that specimen was found from the entrance is calculated at 15 m into the cave. The range that individual was found at is 10 to 20 m from the entrance. The distance between these two stations is an approximate measure of search area, in this case 10 linear meters of passage. In the cases of two long caves, Crystal Cave and Hurricane Crawl Cave, the distances were estimated based on personal experience in the cave. The search time was calculated as person minutes spent in that area, and this time also includes searching for non-millipede taxa, and time to collect specimens and record data. Furthermore, not every millipede seen was collected and these data are based on collected specimens, so the data may slightly overestimate rarity.
Description
Notes: The caves of Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park, explored by JKK and her associates during a survey of cave fauna for the National Park Service, occur in five distinct clusters (Fig. 23), which we have arbitrarily numbered 1–5 from north to south. Amplaria muiri has only been found in the caves of cluster 2. Unidentifiable striariids (males were not collected) were found in Lilburn Cave in cluster 1; these could also be A. muiri.As shown in Table 1, millipeds attributable to A. muiri were collected in Bear Den Cave, Carmoe Crevice, Crystal Cave, Hurricane Crawl Cave, Lange Cave, Pet Cemetery Cave and Weisraum Cave. Males were not available from the last listed of these caves, but geography makes a good case that the specimens taken in Weisraum Cave are A. muiri. Specimens from Hurricane Crawl Cave and Weisraum Cave were moderately well-pigmented, but those from the other caves were pale yellowish white. Because no attempt was made to collect extensively in the forest litter and soil near the caves or elsewhere in the parks, it is not possible to say if A. muiri is cave-limited. The legs and antennae are not inordinately long, and while at the large end of the size spectrum of Amplaria species (except for the giant A. shastae), a convincing picture of troglobiosis is not presented. The pale populations may represent permanent cave residents (troglophiles) but still may be in reproductive contact with surface populations.
Taxon Treatment
- Shear, William A.; Krejca, Jean K.; 2007: Revalidation of the milliped genus Amplaria Chamberlin 1941 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striariidae), and description of two new species from caves in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, California, Zootaxa 1532: 28-35. doi
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