A remarkable Newportia from the Colombian Andes, with the proposition of a new subgenus (Scolopendromorpha, Scolopocryptopidae, Newportiinae)
Author
Tulande-M, Esteban
0000-0001-7754-9518
Author
Prado, César Camilo
0000-0002-6149-7773
polydesmida@gmail.com
Author
Jiménez, Sebastián Galvis
0000-0002-6041-7903
sgalvisjimenez@gmail.com
Author
Chagas-Jr, Amazonas
0000-0002-3827-378X
amazonaschagas@gmail.com
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-10-06
4859
2
228
238
journal article
8211
10.11646/zootaxa.4859.2.3
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1175-5326
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Newportia
(
Andeocryptops
)
subgen. n.
Diagnosis:
Small (
5–13 mm
)
Newportia
with yellowish to brown-reddish coloration, distinguished from the representatives of both
N
. (
Ectonocryptoides
) and
N
. (
Ectonocryptops
) by the following: ultimate tarsus 2 very short and thin (comparing to tarsus 1), cylindrical (much reduced/absent in
N
.
Ectonocryptoides
, bulbous in
N
.
Ectonocryptops
), legs with tibial lateral spur (no tibial spurs in the former ectonocriptopines), ultimate tarsus 1 subclavate (not subclavated in the former ectonocryptopines), with a large “spinning-spur” (without or with a conic reduced “spinning-spur” in the former ectonocryptopines), ultimate femur, tibia and tarsus 1 densely porous (only tibia in
Ectonocryptops
, tibia and tarsus
1 in
Ectonocryptoides
), cephalic plate with a short paramedian sutures close to the anterior and posterior margins (without any cephalic paramedian sutures), pretarsus with accessory spine.
Etymology:
The name
Andeocryptops
means a cryptopiphorm centipede from the Andes.