Pseudotremia tsuga Shear

Shear, William A., 2008, Cave millipeds of the United States. VII. New species and records of the genus Pseudotremia Cope. I. Species from West Virginia, USA (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Cleidogonidae), Zootaxa 1764, pp. 53-65 : 58

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.182004
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6227848
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scientific name	Pseudotremia tsuga Shear
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Pseudotremia tsuga Shear View in CoL

P. t s u g a Shear 1972, p. 190.

Type locality: Cranberry Glades Natural Area, near Mill Point, Pocahontas Co., WEST VIRGINIA (male holotype and male paratype, MCZ) and a marsh near Mill Point (female paratypes, MCZ).

New record: WEST VIRGINIA: Pocahontas Co.: Bolling Cave, 7 January 1972, D. Culver, R. Baroody, m,f.

This is another large, pigmented, epigean species with well-developed eyes (25 ocelli in each eyepatch). The type males were taken in a high elevation sphagnum bog (Cranberry Glades) well known for isolated records of otherwise boreal plants and animals.