Newportia (Newportides) amazonica Brolemann, 1904

Chagas-Jr, Amazonas, 2018, A review of Newportia species in the subgenus Newportides Chamberlin, 1921 (Scolopendromorpha, Scolopocryptopidae, Newportiinae), Zootaxa 4403 (1), pp. 154-170 : 155-158

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Newportia (Newportides) amazonica Brolemann, 1904 View in CoL

( Figures 1–17 View FIGURES 1–4 View FIGURES 5–6 View FIGURES 7–8 View FIGURES9–11 View FIGURES 12–17 )

Newportia (Scolopendrides) amazonica: Вrölemann, 1904: 69 View in CoL , Pl. 2, Figs 3, 4 View FIGURES 1–4 ; 1909: 9;

Newportia amazonica: Chamberlin, 1914: 165 View in CoL ; Attems, 1930: 283, Fig. 381; Вücherl, 1940: 257; 1942: 90; Schileyko & Minelli, 1999: 272, Figs 4b, c View FIGURES 1–4 ; Schileyko, 2013: 51;

Newportia (Newportides) amazonica: Вücherl, 1974: 128 View in CoL ;

Type material examined. Syntype MZSP 212 View Materials , 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 View FIGURES 1–4 ), with shallow incomplete paramedian sutures reaching to its middle.

Anterior margin of forcipular coxosternite slightly convex in the middle ( Fig. 3 View FIGURES 1–4 ); Coxosternal tooth-plates narrow and very short ( Fig. 4 View FIGURES 1–4 ) 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 View FIGURES 5–6 ); tergite 2 with short incomplete paramedian sutures and short lateral sutures ( Fig. 6 View FIGURES 5–6 ); tergites 3–22 (2–22) with complete paramedian sutures ( Fig. 7 View FIGURES 7–8 ); tergites 3–19 with lateral longitudinal sutures ( Fig. 8 View FIGURES 7–8 ); tergites 5–19 with a low median longitudinal keel ( Fig. 8 View FIGURES 7–8 ); 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 View FIGURES9–11 ); sternites 2–19 with shallow lateral sutures ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES9–11 ); 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 View FIGURES9–11 ). Prefemur of right ultimate leg with four large ventral spinous processes ( Figs 12, 14 View FIGURES 12–17 ) and of left leg with three processes ( Fig. 13 View FIGURES 12–17 ); femur of ultimate legs with one large spinous process ( Figs 12, 14 View FIGURES 12–17 ); tibia shorter than tarsus 1 ( Fig. 15 View FIGURES 12–17 ); distal half of tarsus 1 divided into articles, with somewhat vague( Fig. 16 View FIGURES 12–17 ); tarsus 2 with 15–17 articles, not well divided and with a well-developed claw-shaped pretarsus ( Fig. 17 View FIGURES 12–17 ).