Florea Shelley, 1996

Shelley, Rowland M. & Richart, Casey H., 2014, Tynommatidae, n. stat., a family of western North American millipeds: Hypotheses on origins and affinities; tribal elevations; rediagnoses of Diactis Loomis, 1937, and Florea and Caliactis, both Shelley, 1996; and description of D. hedini, n. sp. (Callipodida: Schizopetalidea), Insecta Mundi 2014 (340), pp. 1-19 : 7

Genus Florea Shelley, 1996

Florea Shelley, 1996:46 ; 2002a:106. Hoffman, 1999:205. Shelley et al. 2000:58. Stoev et al, 2008:38.

Type-species. F. sinuata Shelley, 1996 , by original designation.

Diagnosis (adapted from that in Shelley [1996]). Transition to full number of dorsal carinae on segment 8. Telopodal stem long, slender, and strongly sinuate, without true prefemoral process; division point apical and with basal lobe, with three apical or slightly subapical projections directed generally horizontally, subperpendicular to stem. Tibiotarsus directed subcaudad, moderately long, subequal in length to solenomere branch; latter directed subanteriad, not redivided and thus constituting the solenomere itself, process ‘A’ absent; process ‘B’, apparently representing relocated prefemoral process, subapical, shorter than other projections, directed generally horizontally but curving ventrad near midlength.

Species. One.

Distribution. Known definitely only from the Trabuco Ranger District, Cleveland Nat. For., Orange Co., California; it probably also occurs near the San Juan Guard Station in this forest (Shelley 1996, 2002a; Hoffman 1999; Shelley et al. 2000; Stoev et al. 2008).