“…Most other "Asian/North American" Scolopocryptops bear the marginal sulcus/sulci on the cephalic plate, except the North American S. peregrinator (Crabill, 1952), S. gracilis Wood, 1862, and the Chinese S. zhijiensis Qiao et al, 2021 (the latter described based on an immature individual). It is also notable that transparent margin on the dorsal brush of the second maxilla can be recognized in the Neotropical species S. melanostoma Newport, 1844 and several species of Newportia Gervais, 1847, which is a sister group of Scolopocryptops (e.g., Chagas-Jr, 2018;Schileyko, 2018;Schileyko et al, 2020), and also in our specimens of "Asian/ North American" Scolopocryptops species (i.e., S. rubiginosus, S. quadristriatus, S. ogawai, and S. musashiensis) (T. Jonishi, unpublished data).…”