Myriapod Types of Oscar Harger 5 



accounts. For details of the genitalia, refer to the illustrations in Palmen 

 (1952) and Shear (1972). 



Chordeumatida: Conotylidae 

 Taiyutyla glomerata (Harger), new combination 

 Trichopetalum glomeratum Harger, 1872:118, pi. II, fig. 5. Ryder, 

 1881:527 Packard, 1883:192. McNeill, 1888:8. Chamberlin and 

 Hoffman, 1958:105. Shear, 1971:63. 

 Craspedosoma glomeratum: Bollman, 1893:120. 

 Conotyla glomerata: Cook and Collins, 1895:78. Cook, 1904:69. 



Type Specimen — Female holotype (No. 2173) collected by O. 

 Harger in October 1871 from the vicinity of Canyon City, in the 

 John Day River Valley, Grant County, Oregon. 



Remarks — The holotype is somewhat deformed, and its genitalia 

 have been dissected and are lost. 



Cook and Collins (1895) stated that the original description was 

 too brief to allow accurate generic placement but that the segment 

 number, short fifth antennomere, and triangular eye patch resembled 

 the condition in Conotyla. Shear (1971) agreed that accurate generic 

 placement was impossible but perceived a similarity to Taiyutyla; he 

 did not think the name could be referred to either Trichopetalum or 

 Conotyla and considered it a nomen dubium. The holotype is about 8 

 mm long and has 30 post cephalic segments with obvious lateral 

 tergal knobs that give rise to two prominent setae, so it is clearly a 

 conotylid. Generic placement is impossible to determine with certainty 

 until a male topotype is obtained, but the milliped is smaller and its 

 lateral setae are much longer than those of comparative specimens of 

 Conotyla atrolineata (Bollman), the western-most known representative 

 of this genus, occurring in central British Columbia, northeastern 

 Washington, and northern Idaho, over 200 mi (320 km) north northeast 

 of Canyon City. These considerations tend to exclude Conotyla, but 

 the type locality is also well removed from most of the known distribu- 

 tions of the other northwestern conotylid genera Bollmanella and 

 Taiyutyla, which are from southern coastal Oregon to Mason County, 

 Washington, and in the Coast Ranges from San Francisco Bay to the 

 Columbia River, respectively (Shear 1974, 1986). However, one species 

 in each of these genera occurs east of the above ranges, B. bifurcata 

 Shear, in the Wallowa Mountains, Wallowa County, Oregon, and T 

 curvata Loomis and Schmitt, in Lincoln County, Montana, so either 

 genus could occur in the Blue Mountains, which occupy an intermediate 



