Newportia (Newportia) Gervais, 1847

Schileyko, Arkady A., Vahtera, Varpu & Edgecombe, Gregory D., 2020, An overview of the extant genera and subgenera of the order Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda): a new identification key and updated diagnoses, Zootaxa 4825 (1), pp. 1-64 : 14

(!) 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).

Figures

FIGURES 14–19. Ectonocryptops kraepelini Crabill, 1977; Holotype 14 figures 5, 6 of Shelley & Mercurio (2008): ultimate LBS and left ultimate leg (dorsally) + left ultimate leg (ventrally); Ectonocryptoides sandrops Schileyko, 2006; Holotype Rc 7197 15 LBS 23 + left ultimate leg dorsally; Ectonocryptoides quadrimeropus Shelley & Mercurio, 2005; AMNH, Puebla specimen of Shelley (2009) 16 Apical part of maxilla 2 laterally; Ectonocryptoides sandrops Schileyko, 2006; Holotype Rc 7197 17 Head + forcipular segment ventrally 18 General view dorso-laterally; Newportia monticola Pocock, 1890; Ad. N 7078 19a left side of ultimate LBS + ultimate legs dorso-laterally; Newportia monticola Pocock, 1890 19b right ultimate leg ventrally (schematic); (am)—anterior margin of forcipular coxosternite, (cp)—coxopleural process, (dp)—distomedial uncinate process of tibia, (p2)—pretarsus of maxilla 2, (pf)—prefemur, (ti)—tibia, (t1)—tarsus 1, (t2g)—reduced globose tarsus 2, (t2r)—tarsus 2 with regularly divided secondary articles, (ut)—ultimate tergite, (vsp)—ventral spinous process.

FIGURES 20–25. Newportia stolli (Pocock, 1896); Ad. Rc 7235 (?) 20a ultimate LBS + ultimate legs dorsally; Newportia divergens Chamberlin, 1922 20b right ultimate leg (schematic); Newportia longitarsis virginensis Lewis, 1989; Ad. Rc 7470 21 head and forcipular segment ventrally; Newportia (Tidops) collaris (Kraepelin, 1903); MCZ 32933 22 forcipular segment ventrally 23 anterior half of head ventrally 24 apical part of maxilla 2 laterally 25 right pleuron of mid body LBS laterally; (am)—anterior margin of forcipular coxosternite, (cl)—clypeus, (cst)— forcipular coxosternite, (f)—femur, (l)—labrum, (p2)—pectinate pretarsus of maxilla 2, (pa)—blunt projection of anterior margin of forcipular coxosternite, (pf)—prefemur, (s)—open spiracle with atrium, (t1)—tarsus 1, (t2i)—tarsus 2 with irregularly divided secondary articles, (th)—trichoid sensillae, (ti)—tibia, (tr)—tarsungula, (trp)—forcipular trochantero-prefemur, (ut)—ultimate tergite.