(!) Newportia (Newportia) Gervais, 1847 stat. nov.

Figs 19–21

Type species. Scolopocryptops longitarsis Newport, 1845 (by monotypy) .

Diagnosis. Anterior margin of forcipular coxosternite straight (or more or less bilobed), divided by small median diastema and lacking any kind of tooth plates (Fig. 21); tarsungula long, overlapping each other by at least 1/3 of their length when adducted. LBS 7 with spiracles. Ultimate leg with tarsus 2 divided into 4–40 variably-distinct secondary articles (Figs 19, 20), without claw-shaped pretarsus.

Number of species. 40 species plus 10 subspecies (new data).

Remarks. Treated as a subgenus in Ázara and Ferreira (2014: 267), Chagas-Jr (2018: 154).