Newportia monticola Pocock, 1890



Newportia monticola Pocock, 1890

Original description: Pocock R.I. (1890). A short account of a small collection of myriopoda obtained by Mr. Edward Whymper in the Andes of Ecuador - Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (6)6: 141-146, see p. 144.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Scolopocryptopidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Newportia Gervais, 1847

Type locality: Ecuador, Chimborazo

Synonym(s):

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Schileyko A., Minelli A. (1999). On the genus Newportia Gervais, 1847 (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Newportiidae) - Arthropoda Selecta, 7 (1998): 265-299, see p. 284.

Distribution:

-- within Southern America: Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; Galápagos; Guyana; Peru; Venezuela