A review of the centipede genus Tidops Chamberlin (Scolopendromorpha, Scolopocryptopidae, Newportiinae)
Author
Chagas-Junior, Amazonas
text
International Journal of Myriapodology
2011
5
63
82
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/ijm.5.1649
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/ijm.5.1649
1875-2543--63
Subfamily
Newportiinae Pocock, 1896
Diagnosis.
Median-sized to small scolopocryptopids, general body color brown, dark or pale yellow, cephalic plate reddish brown and legs yellow. Cephalic plate, te
rgites
and sternites normally smooth, with or without short incomplete sutures starting on the posterior border of the cephalic plate; with or without a pair of spiracles on the seventh pedal segment, last tergite always margined, sternites usually longer than wide, with coxopleural processes, ultimate legs elongated and relatively slender, prefemora of the ultimate legs with three or more and femur and tibia with or without spinous processes. Second tarsus divided in
"pseudoarticles"
.
Included genera.
Newportia
and
Tidops
.
Distribution.
Neotropical.