Newportia Newportia spinipes
Newportia spinipes Pocock, 1896: 32 [key], 33 [description], 35 [mention], unnumbered [explanation of plate], pl. 3, figs. 5, 5a-d.
Newportia spinipes: Kraepelin (1903: 82 [key], 88 [description], 89 [figs. 41-42], 274 [index]). Ribaut (1913: 74 [key]). Chamberlin (1915: 501 [mention]). Attems (1930: 269 [key], 275 [description], 303 [index]).
Species concept: Morphological Species Concept
Diagnosis: Cephalic plate with 2 short posterior paramedian sutures. T1 with complete anterior transverse sulcus, sulcus angled at middle. T1 with omegoid paramedian sutures, outer branches of omegoid sutures extending in front of the anterior transverse sulcus. Locomotory legs tibiae with 1 distal anterior and 1 distal ventral spur, tarsi with 1 distal ventral spur. L23 with 4 ventral prefemoral spinous processes and 3 femoral spinous processes. L23 tibiae longer than femora. L23 tarsi composed of 14 articles, ultimate manubrium slightly shorter or as long as the tibia, ultimate flagellum distinctly divided into 13 articles. L23 without a claw.
See Pocock (1896: 32, 33-34, pl. 3, figs. 5, 5a-d)[1], Chamberlin (1943: 7)[2], and Schileyko (2013)[3].
References
- , “Chilopoda. Part CXXVII.”, in Biologia Centrali-Americana; or, Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and Central America. Zoology. Chilopoda and Diplopoda., vol. 14, London: Taylor & Francis, 1896, pp. 25-40.
- , “On Mexican centipeds”, Bulletin of the University of Utah, Biological Series, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 1-55, 1943.
- , “A new species of Newportia Gervais, 1847 from Puerto Rico, with a revised key to the species of the genus (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha, Scolopocryptopidae)”, ZooKeys, vol. 276, pp. 39-54, 2013.