A review of Vietnamese Scolopocryptops Newport, 1844 (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha), with a description of S. hoanglieni n. sp. and the updated generic list of species Author Le, Son X. 0000-0003-1648-6773 Institute of Tropical Ecology, Vietnam-Russia Tropical Centre, 63 Nguyen Van Huyen Rd, Cau Giay District, Hanoi, Vietnam. lesonenv 86 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1648 - 6773 & VNU University of Sciences, Vietnam National University, 334 Nguyen Trai, Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi, Vietnam. lesonenv86@gmail.com Author Schileyko, Arkady A. 0000-0002-6139-5240 Zoological Museum of the Moscow Lomonosov State University, Bolshaya Nikitskaja Str. 2, Moscow, 125009, Russia. schileyko 1965 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6139 - 5240 schileyko1965@gmail.com Author Nguyen, Anh D. 0000-0001-9273-0040 Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18, Hoangquocviet Rd., Cau Giay District, Hanoi, Vietnam. ducanh. iebr @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9273 - 0040 & Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18, Hoangquocviet Rd., Cau Giay District, Hanoi, Vietnam. ducanh.iebr@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2023 2023-01-16 5228 4 441 447 journal article 225933 10.11646/zootaxa.5228.4.3 bb50dc3b-5fb9-4739-9573-84f8e625c342 1175-5326 7539938 F6AD0451-C428-43CD-A7CD-FFA10D06577A Scolopocryptops melanostoma Newport, 1845 Scolopocryptops melanostomus Newport, 1885: 406 ; Otocryptops melanostomus : Chamberlin, 1920: 10 ; Otocryptops melanostomus : Attems, 1930: 263 ; Otocryptops melanostomus : B̧cherl, 1950: 194; Otocryptops melanostomus : Attems, 1953: 146 ; Otocryptops melanostomus : B̧cherl, 1959: 238; Scolopocryptops melanostomus : Schileyko, 2007: 92 ; Scolopocryptops melanostoma : Chagas, 2010: 164 ; Scolopocryptops melanostoma : Schileyko, 2014: 154 ; Scolopocryptops melanostoma : Schileyko & Stoev, 2016: 250 ; Scolopocryptops melanostoma : Qiao, Xiao & Di, 2021: 28 . Comparative material. E Indonesia , West Papua Province , South Bird’s Neck : 1 ad (Rc 7503 in ZMMU ), Kaimana 47 km E, Triton bay , environs Kamaka village , lake Kamakawalar , 03°45’33”S , 134°12’05”E , 90 m , primeval lowland rainforest on limestone, 09.09.2010 , leg. M. Kalninsh ; 1 ad (Rc 7504 in ZMMU ), Kaimana 7–9 km NW, 25–200 m , primeval lowland rainforest on limestone, 05.09.2010 , leg. D. Telnov. Diagnosis. 4–6 basal antennal articles virtually lacking setae; cephalic plate not marginate laterally; tergites 3(4)–21(22) with paramedian sutures, ultimate tergite lacks lateral margination; LBS 7 lacks spiracles; femur, tibia and tarsus of the ultimate legs densely setose. Description. For morphological details see Schileyko (2014) and Schileyko & Stoev (2016) (the most recent data on this species) who described specimens from Venezuela and East Indonesia ( West Papua Province ) respectively. Range (by Schileyko & Stoev 2016 ). Mexico , Central America ( Guatemala , Honduras , Costa Rica , Panama ), Greater Antilles ( Puerto Rico , Haiti ), Lesser Antilles (Martinique, Saint Vincent and Grenadines , Trinidad ), South America ( Venezuela , Colombia , Ecuador , Peru , Brazil ), Australasia ( Fiji Islands ), Indochina (Nicobar Island, Vietnam ), Taiwan , Philippines , Eastern Indonesia , Papua New Guinea . Remarks. Only Attems (1953) reported this widespread species from Vietnam (Langbiang Mountains in Lam Dong Province ). Attems (1953) considered the complete absence of leg’s accessory spines to be a diagnostic character for S. melanostoma , but Schileyko & Stoev (2016: 250) described the corresponding rudiments (recognizable at x85 magnification) in material from West Papua. In fact, the main diagnostic character of this species is the absence of any lateral margination of the tergites, including the ultimate.