Scolopocryptops undetermined
Creators: name: Xiao, Shuqing
name: Chen, Huiming
name: Di, Zhiyong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Scolopendromorpha
Scolopocryptopidae
Scolopocryptops
Scolopocryptops undetermined

description: Key to the Chinese Scolopocryptops species
(based on Chao and Chang (2003, 2008); Qiao et al. (2021); Schileyko (2014); Shelley (2002); Song et al. (2004))
1. Length of ultimate legs (from prefemur to pretarsus) up to 40% of body length.................................... 2
- Length of ultimate legs (from prefemur to pretarsus) less than a third of body length................................ 3
2. Cephalic plate without margination; LL1–22 with sparse long setae (Qiao et al. 2021: Figs 8, 13–16).......... S. zhijinensis
- Cephalic plate with margination; LL1–22 almost glabrous, only with scattered fine hairs.............. S. longipes sp. nov.
3. Short coxopleural process; anterior margin of forcipular coxosternite with a pair of chitinous crest (Chao and Chang, 2008: Fig. 2A & B)...................................................................................... S. curtus
- Long coxopleural process; anterior margin of forcipular coxosternite without chitinous crest.......................... 4
4. Cephalic plate without margination (Schileyko, 2014: Fig. 4)....................................... S. melanostoma
- Cephalic plate with margination.......................................................................... 5
5. 2nd antennomere moderately to densely hirsute dorsad........................................................ 6
- 2nd antennomere sparsely hirsute dorsad................................................................... 7
6. 2nd antennomere moderately hirsute dorsad; tergites with complete paramedian dorsal sutures (Shelley, 2002: Figs 96–107).......................................................................................... S. rubiginosus
- 2nd antennomere densely hirsute dorsad; paramedian dorsal sutures incomplete throughout body (Shelley, 2002: Figs 76–79)......................................................................................... S. sexspinosus
7. TT8–20 with complete paramedian sutures (Song et al. 2004: Fig. 2E).............................. S. nigrimaculatus
- Tergites without complete paramedian sutures.............................................................. 8
8. Cephalic plate and tergites 1, 22, 23 red. Rest of tergites, trunk legs and antennae grayish green; tibia and tarsi of ultimate legs with bushy setae......................................................................... S. capillipedatus
- Color generally orangish to brownish, with or without darkened spots; ultimate legs sparsely hirsute, setae scattered, never dense..................................................................................... S. spinicaudus
description: Published as part of Xiao, Shuqing, Chen, Huiming & Di, Zhiyong, 2021, Scolopocryptops longipes sp. nov., a troglobitic scolopocryptopine centipede (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopocryptopidae) from China, pp. 87-94 in Zootaxa 5082 (1) on page 92, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5082.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/5783241