Striariidae

General description: 

The known diversity of the family Striariidae amounts to 2 subfamilies, 15 genera, and 52 species. The subfamily Striariinae comprises 12 genera and 47 species: Striaria (11 species), Amplaria (18 species), Kentrostriaria Shear & Marek, 2022a (1 species), Maraplia Shear & Marek, 2022b (3 species), Lamparia Shear & Marek, 2022b (4 species), Rampalia Shear & Marek, 2022b (1 species), Plaramia Shear & Marek, 2022b (2 species), Ralampia Shear & Marek, 2022b (2 species), Petra Shear, Marek, Bond & Wesener, 2022 (1 species), Miniaria Shear & Marek, 2023 (2 species), Tigraria Shear & Marek, 2023 (1 species), and Kingaria Shear & Marek, 2023 (1 species). The sister subfamily Trisariinae Shear, 2020 comprises 3 genera and 5 species: Trisaria Shear, 2020 (3 species), Stegostriaria Shear & Marek, 2022a (1 species), and Nototrisaria Shear & Marek, 2022b (1 species). The current classification follows Shear (2020[1], 2021a[2], 2021b[3]), Shear & Marek (2022a[4], b[5]), Shear et al. (2022a[6], b[7]), and Shear & Marek (2023)[8]. [14.iv.2023]

References

  1. W. A. Shear, “The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893: I. Introduction to the family, synonymy of Vaferaria Causey with Amplaria Chamberlin, the new subfamily Trisariinae, the new genus Trisaria, and three new species”, Zootaxa, vol. 4758, no. 2, pp. 275-295, 2020.
  2. W. A. Shear, “The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893. II. New records and species of the genus Amplaria Chamberlin, 1941 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea)”, Zootaxa, vol. 4908, no. 2, pp. 205-224, 2021.
  3. W. A. Shear, “The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893: III. Four new species of Striaria Bollman, 1888 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striariidae) from Idaho, USA”, Zootaxa, vol. 4920, no. 3, pp. 395-406, 2021.
  4. W. A. Shear and Marek, P. E., “The milliped family Striariidae Bollman, 1893. V. Stegostriaria dulcidormus, n. gen., n. sp., Kentrostriaria ohara, n. gen., n. sp., and the convergent evolution of exaggerated metazonital crests (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea)”, Zootaxa, vol. 5094, no. 3, pp. 461-472, 2022.
  5. W. A. Shear and Marek, P. E., “The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893. VI. Six new genera and thirteen new species from western North America (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea)”, Zootaxa, vol. 5205, no. 6, pp. 501-531, 2022.
  6. W. A. Shear, Nosler, P., and Marek, P. E., “The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893. IV. Amplaria oedipus, n. sp., with a secondary sexual modification of males unique among millipedes (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea)”, Zootaxa, vol. 5099, no. 1, pp. 137-145, 2022.
  7. W. A. Shear, Marek, P. E., Bond, J. E., and Wesener, T., “The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893. VII. Petra sierwaldae, n. gen., n. sp., a minute millipede from Idaho, USA (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striariidae)”, Zootaxa, vol. 5213, no. 3, pp. 287-293, 2022.
  8. W. A. Shear and Marek, P. E., “The millipede family Striariidae Bollman, 1893. VIII. Three new genera and four new species of minute millipedes from Oregon and Washington, USA (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Striarioidea)”, Zootaxa, vol. 5264, no. 3, pp. 323-340, 2023.
Taxonomic name: 
Striariidae (Taxonomy)
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith