Genus Scolopocryptops Newport, 1844

Type-species. Scolopocryptops melanostoma Newport, 1844 (by subsequent designation by Lucas, 1849).

Range. North, Central and South America; China; Japan; Korea; Vietnam; Philippines; Sunda Archipelago; New Guinea; West Africa.

Remarks. The Venezuelan representatives of Scolopocryptops have the following morphological pecularities:

1. Mesal surface of forcipular tarsungula with three longitudinal ridges (Fig. 2). Their number (0 or 3) may be species-specific in Scolopocryptops as all specimens of S. melanostoma examined, S. guacharensis Manfredi, 1957 and S. ferrugineus (L., 1767) have three ridges well-developed, but Vietnamese S. rubiginosus L.Koch, 1878 lacks them having tarsungula round in cross-section.

2. Process of forcipular trochanteroprefemur with a basal transverse suture (Fig. 3), which is much better developed in S. melanostoma than in S. guacharensis .