Newportia mexicana (Saussure,1858)



Newportia mexicana (Saussure,1858)

Original description: Saussure H. L. F. de (1858). Note sur la famille des Polydesmides (americaines). Diagnoses de quelques Myriapodes nouveaux de l’ordre des Chilopodes - Revue et Magasin de zoologie pure et appliquées , 2 ser, 10: pp??(includes 545), see p. 546.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Scolopocryptopidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Scolopendrides Saussure, 1858

Type locality: Mexico, Córdoba

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Chagas Junior A., Shelley R.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: Scolopocryptopid - Zootaxa, 379: 1-20, see p. 13.