Rm. Shelley et Sb. Bauer, NEW RECORDS AND SPECIES, AND TAXONOMIC ALTERATIONS IN THE MILLIPEDE FAMILY PAEROMOPODIDAE (JULIDA), Entomological news, 108(1), 1997, pp. 1-14
Diagnoses are presented for two new paeromopodid milliped species from
California - Paeromopus paniculus, from the Merced River Valley, Mari
posa County, and Californiulus blechrostriatus, from the eastern slope
of the Sierra Nevada and the desert of Inyo County. Paeromopus butten
sis is reduced to subspecific status under P. angusticeps because of a
newly discovered intergrade male from central Sonoma County and reint
erpretation of P. ocellatus in western Solano County, which is compris
ed of anatomically intermediate forms and placed in synonymy under P.
a. buttensis, new status. New localities of Californiulus dorsovittatu
s and C. yosemitensis in Lassen, Modoc, and Siskiyou counties connect
the formerly disjunct Warner Mountain population of the latter to the
main ranges of the genus and family. The southern area of C. yosemiten
sis, extending from Mariposa to Kern counties, is segregated from that
from Placer County northward because the species has never been colle
cted in El Dorado, Amador, and Calaveras counties. The distribution of
C, euphanus in western Washington extends eastward into the western p
eriphery of the Columbia Plateau.