Cryptopidae Explained

The Cryptopidae are a family of scolopendromorph centipedes. Cryptopids are blind (lacking ocelli) and possess 21 pairs of legs.^[1] The genus Cryptops is the numerically largest in the family, comprising over 150 species worldwide.^[2]

Classification

The following genera, may be included:^{[3] [4]}

1. Cryptops Leach, 1814
2. Eremops Bollman, 1893
3. Mimops Kraepelin, 1903
4. Paracryptops Pocock, 1891
5. Tonkinodentus Schileyko, 1992
6. Trigonocryptops Verhoeff, 1906

The genera Plutonium and Theatops Newport, 1844, formerly classified in the cryptopid subfamily Plutoniuminae, are now placed in the recently elevated family Plutoniumidae.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Book: Bonato . Lucio . The Myriapoda. Volume 1 . Edgecombe . Gregory D. . Zapparoli . Marzio . Brill . 2011 . 978-90-04-18826-6 . Minelli . Alessandro . Leiden . 363–443 . Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview . 812207443.
2. Balan. Dhanya. P.M. Sureshan. Vinod Khanna. A new species of centipede of the genus Cryptops Leach (Scolopendromorpha: Cryptopidae) from southern Western Ghats with a key to the species of Cryptops in India. Journal of Threatened Taxa. 2012. 4. 4. 2510–2514. 10.11609/jott.o3035.2510-4. free.
3. https://www.gbif.org/species/4085 GBIF
4. Web site: Chilobase: a web resource for Chilopoda taxonomy.. 14 October 2013. Minelli, A.. Bonato, L.. Dioguardi, R.. etal. 23 April 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110423203659/http://chilobase.bio.unipd.it/. dead.
5. Discovery of the centipede family Plutoniumidae (Chilopoda) in Asia: A new species of Theatops from China, and the taxonomic value of spiracle distributions in Scolopendromorpha . 2010 . Di . Zhiyong . Cao . Zhijian . Wu . Yingliang . Yin . Shijin . Edgecombe . Gregory D. . Li . Wenxin . Zootaxa . 2667 . 51–63 . 10.11646/zootaxa.2667.1.4 . ResearchGate.