Scolopocryptops Newport, 1844

Schileyko, Arkady A., 2014, A contribution to the centipede fauna of Venezuela (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha), Zootaxa 3821 (1), pp. 151-192 : 153

Genus Scolopocryptops Newport, 1844

Type-species. Scolopocryptops melanostoma Newport, 1844 (by subsequent designation by Lucas, 1849).

Range. North, Central and South America; China; Japan; Korea; Vietnam; Philippines; Sunda Archipelago; New Guinea; West Africa.

Remarks. The Venezuelan representatives of Scolopocryptops have the following morphological pecularities:

1. Mesal surface of forcipular tarsungula with three longitudinal ridges ( Fig. 2 ). Their number (0 or 3) may be species-specific in Scolopocryptops as all specimens of S. melanostoma examined, S. guacharensis Manfredi, 1957 and S. ferrugineus (L., 1767) have three ridges well-developed, but Vietnamese S. rubiginosus L.Koch, 1878 lacks them having tarsungula round in cross-section.

2. Process of forcipular trochanteroprefemur with a basal transverse suture ( Fig. 3 ), which is much better developed in S. melanostoma than in S. guacharensis .

Figures

FIGURES 2 – 5. Scolopocryptops melanostoma Newport, 1845 2 adult N 7169: forcipular tarsungula, ventral view 3 adult N 7172: forcipular segment and segment 1, ventral view 4 adult N 7172: cephalic plate and segments 1 – 2, dorsal view 5 adult N 7172: segments of anterior body half, ventral view; (ta) — forcipular tarsungulum, (lr) — mesal longitudinal ridges of forcipular tarsungulum, (cxs) — forcipular coxosternite, (trf) — trochanteroprefemur of forcipules, (ms) — median suture of forcipular coxosternite, (ts) — transverse sutures, (chl) — chitin-lines, (am) — anterior margin of forcipular coxosternite, (md) — median diastema, (ptr) — process of forcipular trochanteroprefemur, (bs) — basal suture, (lpa) — less pigmented triangular area of coxosternite, (tg 1) — tergite 1, (st) — sternite, (utl) — undivided tarsus of leg.