Cryptops (T.) spinipes Pocock, 1891

Schileyko, Arkady A. & Stoev, Pavel E., 2016, Scolopendromorpha of New Guinea and adjacent islands (Myriapoda, Chilopoda), Zootaxa 4147 (3), pp. 247-280 : 269

10. Cryptops (T.) spinipes Pocock, 1891

Figs 50–53

Cryptops (T.) spinipes: Edgecombe, 2005: 322 ; Cryptops (T.) spinipes: Schileyko, 2007: 90 ;

Cryptops (T.) spinipes: Maurienne et al., 2011: 62 .

Material. Papua New Guinea, Western Province, [West Sepik Province], Bahrman Mts. , from Finim Tel [Plateau] to the pass, 2260–2600 m, BSE [?], 1 ad, 1975, leg. PB & Ph . Chapman , No. 10 809 in NMNHS.

Description. The whole body covered by numerous setae of various size and length, legs and ultimate legs more setose than the body ( Fig. 51).

Head capsule with complete paramedian sutures, its posterior margin covered by tergite 1. Clypeus with two setose clypeal plates ( Fig. 52) delimited by sutures—larger anterior (with 2 setae inside, one of them lost) and much smaller posterior (with 1 lost seta inside)—and 5–6 setae around setose plates. Labrum with three teeth ( Fig. 52).

Anterior margin of forcipular coxosternite with 6+6 marginal setae (some setae are lost but their sockets are well-recognizable) and 4+4 submarginal setae. Tarsungula very thin and long.

Tergite 1 with anterior transverse suture at very anterior margin and well-developed depression in the middle. Sternites with well-developed transverse ridge between the coxae ( Fig. 53). Endosternites better visible in anterior sternites, trigonal sutures well recognizable at sternites 2–5(6). Katopleure not divided vertically ( Fig. 50); spiracles definitely oval (not slit-like).

Legs 1–19 with undivided tarsus, 20 with definitely divided tarsus; accessory spines rudimentary (hardly recognizable at x87.5).

Coxopleural pore field bordered posteriorly by wide poreless area consisting of ca 50 pores of various sizes. Ultimate prefemur, femur, tibia and tarsus 1 with paired distal spinose processes ( Fig. 51) which are better developed in tibia and tarsus 1. Femur of ultimate legs with a single well-developed saw tooth.

Range. Australia, Vietnam, E Indonesia, NW Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Fiji, Solomon Islands ( Schileyko (2007), updated).