Scolopocryptopidae is a
family
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of blind
centipede
Centipedes (from New Latin , "hundred", and Latin , " foot") are predatory arthropods belonging to the class Chilopoda (Ancient Greek , ''kheilos'', lip, and New Latin suffix , "foot", describing the forcipules) of the subphylum Myriapoda, an ...
s.
The number of leg-bearing segments is fixed at 23 for species in this family, which distinguishes the species in this family from all other centipede species.
Genera
* ''
Dinocryptops''
* ''
Ectonocryptoides''
* ''
Ectonocryptops''
* ''
Kartops''
* ''
Kethops''
* ''
Newportia
''Newportia'' is a genus of scolopocryptopid centipedes. It has around 50 described species to date.
Species
* '' Newportia adisi'' Schileyko & Minelli, 1999
* '' Newportia albana'' Chamberlin, 1957
* '' Newportia amazonica'' Brölemann, 1905
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Scolopocryptops
''Scolopocryptops'' is a genus of bark centipedes in the family Scolopocryptopidae. There are at least 20 described species in ''Scolopocryptops''.
Species
These 22 species belong to the genus ''Scolopocryptops'':
* '' Scolopocryptops aberran ...
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* ''
Thalkethops''
* ''
Tidops''
File:Scolopocryptops troglocaudatus Gruna do Cantinho Cave.jpg, alt=, Scolopocryptos troglocaudatus
File:Newportia stoevi 2012 1-4.jpg, alt=, Newportia stoevi
File:Scolopocryptops sexspinosus - inat 65004327.jpg, alt=, Scolopocryptops sexspinosus
File:Newportia spelaea (10.3897-subtbiol.19.8207) Figure 3 (cropped).jpg, alt=, Newportia spelaea
References
External links
Encyclopedia of Life entry
Centipede families
Scolopendromorpha
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