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<I>Narceus Woodruffi</I> University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Insecta Mundi Florida March 2002 Narceus woodruffi Causey, a forgotten rnilliped species (Spirobolida: Spirobolidae) Rowland M. Shelley North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, North Carolina Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi Part of the Entomology Commons Shelley, Rowland M., "Narceus woodruffi Causey, a forgotten rnilliped species (Spirobolida: Spirobolidae)" (2002). Insecta Mundi. 535. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/535 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Florida at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Insecta Mundi by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. INSECTA MUNDI, Vol. 16, No. 1-3, March-September, 2002 25 Narceus woodruffi Causey, a forgotten rnilliped species (Spirobolida: Spirobolidae) Rowland M. Shelley Research Lab., North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, 4301 Reedy Creel: Rd., Raleigh, North Carolina 27607 [email protected] Abstract. Previous treatments of the east-Nearctic spirobolid genus Narceus Rafinesque have overlooked the name, N. woodruffi Causey. The holotype is lost, but examinations of a non-typical male and two paratype and three non-typical females show it to be a valid species, perhaps endemic to north Florida, distinguished by its small size and the configurations of the gonopods and coxal lobes of legs 3-6 in males. Supplemental anatomical notes are presented on the non-typical male along with comparative drawings of the lobes and gonopods of N. woodruffi, N. a7nericaizus (Beauvois), and N. an7~ularis(Rafinesque); distributions of species of Narceus in Florida are depicted on a map. Substantial size differences between ostensibly conspecific males of N. a~nerica~~rcsin Texas and Arkansas suggest that Narceus may be more complex than the current concept of four species. Key words. Narceus, N. woodruffi, N. a~nericanus. Introduction note 4, p. 65, so he did not attempt to evaluate it. Hoffman (1999) and Shelley (2001) missed N. wood- The reddish-brown, cylindrical millipeds of the ruffi in their checklists (Hoffman, Shelley, and Rice genus Narceus Rafinesque are the largest milli- (in press), in an update of the former, do mention peds, and among the most recognizable terrestrial it), so this species has never been assessed and invertebrates, in eastern North America. They range remains valid today. To evaluate its status, I bor- from southern QuBbec, Canada, to Key West, Flor- rowed the female paratypes from the Florida State ida, and, east-west, from the Atlantic Coast to Collection of Arthropods, Gainesville (FSCA). Ac- Osage County, Kansas, and Williamsburg County, cording to Causey (1959), the male holotype was Texas (Keeton, 1960; Shelley, 1988,2001;Hoffman, deposited in the American Museum of Natural 1999; plus unpublished samples examined by the History, but it is not there today (N. I. Platnick, in author). In the first continental checklist, Cham- litt.), and two searches in the general holdings at berlin and Hoffman (1958) recognized 14 nominal the FSCA, where Causey's personal collection was species, but Keeton (1960) reduced the composition transferred after her death in 1979, failed to pro- to three species - americanus (Beauvois, 1805), duce it. The FSCA does house four other samples annularis (Rafinesque, 1820), andgordanus (Cham- from Florida labeled as N. woodruffi - three from berlin, 1943) - placing the remaining names in Alachua County, with one female apiece, and one synonymy under one of these species. Shelley (1988) with a male from Columbia County, whose coxal reduced annularis to subspecific status under amer- lobes on legs 3-5 conform to Causey's illustration icanus, but Hoffman (1999) and Shelley (2001) did (1959, fig. 2). Causey dismissed the gonopods by not recognize subspecies. claiming they are uniform throughout Narceus and In all the treatments of Narceus, one nominal of little value for speclfic determinations, which she species, N. woodruffi Causey, 1959, has been over- based primarily on the configurations of the afore- looked. It was proposed for a small-bodied male and mentioned coxal lobes. However, Keeton (1960, two females from Putnam and Alachua counties, figs. 23-34) showed clear gonopodal differences Florida, respectively (Causey 1959), the former among the species he recognized, and there are still being collected by R. E. Woodruff for whom the more differences in N. woodruffi. Coupled with the milliped is named; the last two body segments and small size and the simple, elongated coxal lobes, I the first two podomeres on legs 3-5 on the right side believe these reflect reproductive isolation and that were illustrated but not the gonopods. This species N. woodruffi is a valid species, the fourth compo- was proposed while Keeton's revision (1960) of the nent of Narceus. I present the following notes on family Spirobolidae was in press, as noted in foot- the new material, comparative illustrations of N. 26 Volume 16, No. 1-3, March-September, 2002, INSECTA MUNDI woodruffi, americanus, and annularis, and a map riad. Remaining pleurotergites subsimilar, with of occurrences of Narcezcs spp. in Florida to supple- ventrolateral striae on meso- and metazonites, ozo- ment Causey's description. The enlarged collum, pores beginning on pleurotergite 6 and continuing which overhangs the ocellaria, and the deep anten- through 45, located on inner margin of metazonite. nal grooves readily diagnose N. gordanus, which is Epiproct very slightly extended apically, terminat- also distinguished by gonopodal features. ing well short of distal margins of paraprocts; latter smoothly rounded, margins not elevated; hypro- Narceus woodruffi Causey proct short and inconspicuous, semilunar. Figs. 1-3 Legs 1-4 with five podomeres, remaining legs with six; pregonopodal legs (legs 1-7) crassate. 1st Narceus woodruffi Causey, 1959:136-137, figs. 1-2. legs short; 2nd legs longer, coxae slightly thickened caudad but not expanded into lobes. Coxae of 3rd Type specimens. Male holotype lost; it was legs greatly expanded into long, narrow, subparal- collected by R. E. Woodruff on an unknown date, 4.2 lel lobes (Fig. I), narrow basally and expanding mi (6.7 km) S Hawthorn, Putnam County, Florida. slightly distad, apically rounded. Coxae of legs 4-6 Two female paratypes (FSCA), housed in separate with progressively shorter and broader lobes, api- vials, collected by "Oliver," 1-8 May 1949, in "Trap cally sublinear on 6th legs. 7th and remaining 4," at an unknown location in Alachua County, coxae without lobes. 8th and subsequent legs not Florida. Causey (1959) recorded the collection dates thickened, terminating on segment 46. as 16-19 June 1949, but the vial labels state May 1- Anterior gonopod sternum (Fig. 2) slightly ele- 8. vated in midline, broadly rounded, terminating Diagnosis. A small-bodied species of Narceus well below level of distal extremities of coxae; characterized by simple, elongated coxal lobes on medial margins of latter subtruncate, detached legs 3-5 in males; paraprocts with margins not from sternum slightly proximad; telopodites distal- elevated or thickened; anterior gonopod sternum ly uncinate. Posterior gonopod prefemoral endite broadly rounded in midline, terminating well below (Fig. 3) relatively long and apically rounded, ex- level of distal extremities of coxae; prefemoral en- tending to level of distal extremity of telopodite; dite of posterior gonopod relatively long and apical- latter not apically sublinear, outer margin pro- ly rounded, extending to level of distal extremity of longed into lobe overhanging inner margin, extend- telopodite; latter not apically sublinear, outer mar- ing proximad into lightly serrate ridge. gin prolonged into lobe overhanging inner margin. Female paratypes. The female paratypes have Columbia County male. Length 40.6 mm, 46 and 49 segments. The label with the latter states maximum width 3.3 mm, WIL ratio 8.1%; 47 seg- "female larva," but the number of segments and the ments. absence of legless, caudal segments show it to be an Epicranial suture short but distinct, terminat- adult. ing well above interantennal region. Ocellaria sep- Non-typical females from Alachua Coun- arated by around five times their diameters, nearly ty. Measurements and segment numbers as fol- round; ocelli about 22, arranged in six rows. An- lows; otherwise as characterized by Causey (1959): tennnal groove relatively shallow, antennae not near Newnan's Lake, 1 July 1959 - length 39.1 completely submerged; antennae short and stout, mm, maximum width 3.3 mm, WIL ratio 8.4%; 48 sparsely hirsute except for fifth-seventh articles, segments. antennomere 1subglobose, 2-6 clavate, 7 short and Gainesville, 20 December 1959 - length 40.7 truncate with four terminal sensory cones; relative mm, maximum width 3.4 mm, WIL ratio 8.4%; lengths of antennomeres 2>1>3=4=5=6>7. Labral 5lsegments. groove continuing onto interantennal region. Ge- Gainesville, 8 September 1960 - length 38.4 nae unmargined, extending slightly beyond adja- mm, maximum width 3.8 mm, WIL ratio 9.9%; 49 cent cranial margins, slightly exceeded by second segments. antennomeres. Clypeal setae 5-5, labral about 8-8. Ecology. According to Causey (1959), the holo- Collum moderately broad, terminating above type was found beneath cow dung in a "high pine- ventral margin of 2nd pleurotergite, extending turkey oak" woodland. The Columbia County male forward to level of dorsal margins of ocellaria. 2nd was collected from "under bark of Quercus laeuis," pleurotergite extending below levels of other pleu- and the two non-typical females from Gainesville rotergites, corners rounded, angling slightly ante- INSECTA MUNDI, Vol. 16, No. 1-3, March-September, 2002 2 7 Figures 1-9.1-3,N. woodruffi male from Columbia County, Florida. 1, coxal lobes onlegs 3-6, ventralview. 2, anterior gonopods, anterior view. 3, left posterior gonopod, medial view. Figs. 4-6, N. arrzerica~~usmale from Halifax County, North Carolina.
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