Newportia (Ectonocryptops) Crabill, 1977

Schileyko, Arkady A., Vahtera, Varpu & Edgecombe, Gregory D., 2020, An overview of the extant genera and subgenera of the order Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda): a new identification key and updated diagnoses, Zootaxa 4825 (1), pp. 1-64 : 15

Newportia (Ectonocryptops) Crabill, 1977

Fig. 14

Type species. Ectonocryptops kraepelini Crabill, 1977 (by original designation).

Diagnosis. Anterior margin of forcipular coxosternite slightly convex, lacking projections; tarsungula long, overlapping each other by at least 1/3 of their length when adducted (fig. 2 in Shelley & Mercurio 2008). Ultimate leg tibia practically twice the length of tarsus 1 ( Fig. 14 ), with distomedial ventral uncinate process and glandular pores medially; tarsus 2 globose, small but well-developed ( Fig. 14 ).

Number of species. 1.

Remarks. Treated as a genus in Edgecombe & Bonato (2011: 405), suggested as a subgenus of Newportia by Vahtera et al. (2013: 589). The most recent account on this genus is Shelley & Mercurio (2008: 66).

(!) Newportia (Ectonocryptoides) Shelley & Mercurio, 2005

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Type species. Ectonocryptoides quadrimeropus Shelley & Mercurio, 2005 (by original designation).

Diagnosis. Anterior margin of forcipular coxosternite evidently convex, with “two low, additionally chitinised, lobes” ( Schileyko 2009: 529); tarsungula long, overlapping each other by at least 1/3 of their length when adducted ( Fig. 17 ). Ultimate leg tarsus 1 slightly longer than tibia ( Fig. 15 ), the latter with glandular pores ventrally, without distomedial uncinate process (see also fig. 1b in Cupul-Magaña 2015); tarsus 2 absent or rudimentary.

Number of species. 2.

Remarks. Treated as a genus in Edgecombe & Bonato (2011: 405), Vahtera et al. (2012a: 12, 13); suggested as a subgenus of Newportia by Vahtera et al. (2013: 589), treated as a subgenus in Cupul-Magaña (2015). The most recent morphological accounts on Ectonocryptoides are those of Schileyko (2009) and Koch et al. (2010).

Figures

FIGURES 14–19. Ectonocryptops kraepelini Crabill, 1977; Holotype 14 figures 5, 6 of Shelley & Mercurio (2008): ultimate LBS and left ultimate leg (dorsally) + left ultimate leg (ventrally); Ectonocryptoides sandrops Schileyko, 2006; Holotype Rc 7197 15 LBS 23 + left ultimate leg dorsally; Ectonocryptoides quadrimeropus Shelley & Mercurio, 2005; AMNH, Puebla specimen of Shelley (2009) 16 Apical part of maxilla 2 laterally; Ectonocryptoides sandrops Schileyko, 2006; Holotype Rc 7197 17 Head + forcipular segment ventrally 18 General view dorso-laterally; Newportia monticola Pocock, 1890; Ad. N 7078 19a left side of ultimate LBS + ultimate legs dorso-laterally; Newportia monticola Pocock, 1890 19b right ultimate leg ventrally (schematic); (am)—anterior margin of forcipular coxosternite, (cp)—coxopleural process, (dp)—distomedial uncinate process of tibia, (p2)—pretarsus of maxilla 2, (pf)—prefemur, (ti)—tibia, (t1)—tarsus 1, (t2g)—reduced globose tarsus 2, (t2r)—tarsus 2 with regularly divided secondary articles, (ut)—ultimate tergite, (vsp)—ventral spinous process.