The centipedes (Arthropoda, Myriapoda, Chilopoda) from Colombia: Part I. Scutigeromorpha and Scolopendromorpha Author Chagas-Jr, Amazonas amazonaschagas@gmail.com Author Chaparro, Elisa Laboratorio Especial de Toxinologia Aplicada, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brasil, 1500, Butantã, CEP- 05503 - 900, São Paulo, SP, Brasil Author Jiménez, Sebastián Galvis Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia Author Triana, Hernán Darío Triana Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia Author Flórez, Eduardo Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia Author Seoane, José Carlos Sícoli Departamento de Geologia, Instituto de Geociências, CCMN, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos, 274 Cidade Universitaria, CEP- 21941 - 916, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil text Zootaxa 2014 2014-03-14 3779 2 133 156 journal article 5833 10.11646/zootaxa.3779.2.2 add91096-4341-4cad-8dbb-4f2fa3dbd773 1175-5326 4910241 008B7919-D879-4270-ADA1-BFE054B8019A Newportia longitarsis longitarsis Gervais, 1847 Material examined. NMNH03285 , 5 specimens , Colombia ; NMNH03285 , 2 specimens , PNN. Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta , Rio Domachni , J.A. Kochalka , 4–6/i/1973 ; NMNH03285 , 2 specimens , PNN. Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta , Loma Cebolleta, J.A . Kochalka , 8–9/V/1973 ; NMNH03285 , 4 specimens , PNN. Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta , San Pedro-San Javier , J.A. Kochalka , 29/III/1973 ; NMNH31269 , 24 specimens , Páramo Chisacá, W.D . Duckmort , 4/X/1966 . Distribution. Newportia longitarsis longitarsis is known from the West Indies ( Cuba , Haiti , Saint Vincent , Dominica , Grenadines and Trinidad ) and South America ( Venezuela , Colombia , Peru and Brazil ) ( Kraepelin 1903 ; Attems 1930 ; Bücherl 1942 ; Schileyko & Minelli 1998 ). In Colombia it has been found in Santa Marta, Caribbean Región, and around the district of Bogotá in the Páramo Chisacá in the Andean Región. Altitudinal range. 9 to 2650 m .