Newportia (Newportides) amazonica Broelemann 1904
Creators: name: Chagas-Jr, Amazonas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Scolopendromorpha
Scolopocryptopidae
Newportia
Newportia amazonica

description: Newportia (Newportides) amazonica Brolemann, 1904
(Figures 1–17)
Newportia (Scolopendrides) amazonica: Вrölemann, 1904: 69, Pl. 2, Figs 3, 4; 1909: 9;
Newportia amazonica: Chamberlin, 1914: 165; Attems, 1930: 283, Fig. 381; Вücherl, 1940: 257; 1942: 90; Schileyko & Minelli, 1999: 272, Figs 4b, c; Schileyko, 2013: 51;
Newportia (Newportides) amazonica: Вücherl, 1974: 128;
Type material examined. Syntype MZSP 212, Brazil, Amazonas state, Manaus, Bicego leg.
Diagnosis. Legs 1–22 without tibial spurs. Femur of ultimate legs with one large spinous process; ultimate tarsus 1 longer than tibia; distal half of tarsus 1 divided into articles, with somewhat vague annulation; tarsus 2 with 15–17 articles, not well divided.
Redescription of syntype. Length: 25 mm; ultimate leg (right) 8.5 mm (8.1 mm). Prefemur 1.5 mm (1.6 mm), femur 1.7 mm (1.5 mm), tibia 1.5 mm (1.5 mm), tarsus 1 2.0 mm (2.0 mm) and tarsus 2 1.8 mm (1.5 mm). Right antenna with 17 articles and left with 10 (17 articles in both antennae); two basal articles glabrous, but with some long setae scattered on surface. Cephalic plate smooth, longer than wide (Figs 1, 2), with shallow incomplete paramedian sutures reaching to its middle.
Anterior margin of forcipular coxosternite slightly convex in the middle (Fig. 3); Coxosternal tooth-plates narrow and very short (Fig. 4) and with a short median suture. Distal denticle of forcipular trochanteroprefemur short.
Tergites smooth; tergite 1 with an anterior transverse suture and complete paramedian sutures (Fig. 5); tergite 2 with short incomplete paramedian sutures and short lateral sutures (Fig. 6); tergites 3–22 (2–22) with complete paramedian sutures (Fig. 7); tergites 3–19 with lateral longitudinal sutures (Fig. 8); tergites 5–19 with a low median longitudinal keel (Fig. 8); tergites 1–22 without margination; tergite 23 marginated, with posterior margin medially convex. Sternites smooth; sternites 2–21 with an incomplete median longitudinal sulcus (Fig. 9); sternites 2–19 with shallow lateral sutures (Fig. 10); sternite 23 shorter than sternite 22, trapeziform, with posterior margin straight. Coxopleuron covered almost entirely by pore-field, with only coxopleural process and a narrow area bordering posterior margin of coxopleuron remaining poreless; coxopleural processes long (¾ sternite 23).
Legs 1–21 without setae; legs 1–22 without lateral and ventral tibial spurs, and tarsal spurs (Fig. 11). Prefemur of right ultimate leg with four large ventral spinous processes (Figs 12, 14) and of left leg with three processes (Fig. 13); femur of ultimate legs with one large spinous process (Figs 12, 14); tibia shorter than tarsus 1 (Fig. 15); distal half of tarsus 1 divided into articles, with somewhat vague(Fig. 16); tarsus 2 with 15–17 articles, not well divided and with a well-developed claw-shaped pretarsus (Fig. 17).
description: Published as part of Chagas-Jr, Amazonas, 2018, A review of Newportia species in the subgenus Newportides Chamberlin, 1921 (Scolopendromorpha, Scolopocryptopidae, Newportiinae), pp. 154-170 in Zootaxa 4403 (1) on pages 155-158, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/1212069