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Newportia pelaezi Chamberlin 1942
- 1. Museu Nacional / UFRJ, Departamento de Invertebrados, Laboratorio de Aracnologia, Quinta da Boa Vista, s / numero, São Cristóvão, CEP- 20.940 - 040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. email <rhoda @ terra. com. br>
- 2. Research Lab., North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, 4301 Reedy Creek Rd., Raleigh, NC 27607 U. S. A. email <rowland. shelley @ ncmail. net>
Description
Newportia pelaezi Chamberlin, 1942
Type locality. Nuevo León: Bustamente, Gruta del Palmito (Holotype at NMNH, examined).
Published records. None.
New records. None.
Remarks. Known only from the type locality, N. pelaezi is the northernmost species in the genus; Chamberlin (1943) reiterated the type locality, and Nicholas (1962) noted that this cave was the only known site. The holotype, a juvenile, has unique, forked, paramedian sulci on tergite 1, but its anatomical characteristics may not be completely developed. Because of this feature, Schileyko & Minelli (1999) retained N. pelaezi as a valid species, as do we. An adult is needed to accurately diagnose this species.
Notes
Published as part of Junior, Amazonas Chagas & Shelley, Rowland M., 2003, The centipede genus Newportia Gervais, 1847, in Mexico: description of a new troglomorphic species; redescription of N. sabina Chamberlin, 1942; revival of N. azteca Humbert & Saussure, 1869; and a summary of the fauna (Scolopendromorpha: Scolopocryptopidae: Newportiinae), pp. 1-20 in Zootaxa 379 on page 16, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.379.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5101887
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NMNH
- Family
- Scolopocryptopidae
- Genus
- Newportia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Scolopendromorpha
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Chamberlin
- Species
- pelaezi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Newportia pelaezi Chamberlin, 1942 sec. Junior & Shelley, 2003
References
- Chamberlin, R. V. (1942) On centipeds and millipeds from Mexican caves. Bulletin of the University of Utah, 33 (4) [Biological Series, 7 (2)], 1 - 19.
- Chamberlin, R. V. (1943) On Mexican centipeds. Bulletin of the University of Utah, 33 (6) [Biological Series, 7 (3)], 1 - 55.
- Nicholas, G. (1962) Checklist of troglobitic organisms of Middle America. American Midland Naturalist, 68 (1), 165 - 188.
- Schileyko, A. & Minelli, A. (1999 [1998]) On the genus Newportia Gervais, 1847 (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha: Newportiidae). Arthropoda Selecta, 7 (4), 265 - 299.