Cryptops (Cryptops) Leach, 1814

Schileyko, Arkady A., Vahtera, Varpu & Edgecombe, Gregory D., 2020, An overview of the extant genera and subgenera of the order Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda): a new identification key and updated diagnoses, Zootaxa 4825 (1), pp. 1-64 : 17-18

(!) Cryptops (Cryptops) Leach, 1814

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Synonyms. C. ( Trichocryptops ) Verhorff, 1937

Type species. Scolopendra hortensis Donovan, 1810 (by monotypy).

Diagnosis. Clypeus in overwhelming majority of species without setose plate(s) delimited by sutures ( Fig. 29 ). Pretarsus of maxillae 2 more or less curved (sometimes hooked, Fig. 30 ), apically either pointed (fig. 285 in Attems 1930) or lobe-shaped (fig. 69 in Verhoeff 1934). Pretarsus in most species is accompanied by a ventral projection ( Fig. 30 ). Dorsal brush of maxilla 2 longer (sometimes slightly shorter) than corresponding pretarsus. Anterior margin of forcipular coxosternite virtually straight or bilobed ( Fig. 29 ), in most species with long enlarged marginal setae; tarsungula long, overlapping each other by at least 1/3 of their length when adducted ( Fig. 29 ). Sternites in most species (and in most specimens within these species) with “cruciform” sutures (see above) of which a median longitudinal one may be not well-developed (rarely virtually absent) plus an additional posterior transverse suture (but never with trigonal sutures; see also Diagnosis of C. (Trigonocryptops) below). Anterior corners of the endosternites without the lateral projections in the majority of species.

Number of species. “More than 170 species in four subgenera” ( Edgecombe & Bonato 2011: 393), 181 ( Bonato et al. 2016).

Remarks. Present as genus and nominate subgenus in Edgecombe & Bonato (2011: 393), Lewis (2011: 12), Murienne et al. (2011: 62), Voigtländer & Reip (2013: 220), Schileyko (2014: 183), Schileyko & Stoev (2016: 262), Lewis (2016a: 575), Bonato et al. (2016). Lewis (2016a) synonymised Cryptops (Trichocryptops) to Cryptops (Cryptops) .

Figures

FIGURES 26–32. Cryptops (Trigonocryptops) martinicensis Schileyko, Iorio & Coulis, 2018; Ad. paratype CIRAD P8A 26 head, forcipular segment + LBS 1–3 ventrally; Cryptops (Paracryptops) weberi Pocock, 1891; MCZ DNA 102459 27 forcipular segment ventrally; Cryptops (Trigonocryptops) martinicensis Schileyko, Iorio & Coulis, 2018; Ad. holotype MNHN 459 28 right ultimate leg medially; Cryptops (C.) caucasius Verhoeff, 1934; Ad. Rc 8003 29 cephalic plate + anterior margin of forcipular coxosternite ventrally; Cryptops australis (Newport, 1845); AM KS 30 apical part of maxilla 2 laterally; Cryptops (Paracryptops) weberi Pocock, 1891; MCZ DNA 102459 31 apical part of of maxilla 2 laterally; Cryptops (Trigonocryptops) martinicensis Schileyko, Iorio & Coulis, 2018; Ad. holotype MNHN 459 32 LBS 3 ventrally; (am)—anterior margin of forcipular coxosternite, (cl)—clypeus, (cs)—clypeal setose plate, (cst)—forcipular coxosternite, (db)—apical setae of dorsal brush, (es)—enlarged (spiniform) setae, (est)—endosternite, (l)—labrum, (lp)—lateral projection of endosternite, (ls)—long setae, (lsc)—sternal median longitudinal sulcus, (pa)—short rounded projection of anterior margin of forcipular coxosternite, (pf)—prefemur, (sl)—sternal median longitudinal suture, (sr)—sternal transverse ridge, (st)—saw teeth, (sts)—sternal transverse suture, (tgs)—sternal trigonal sutures, (ti)—tibia, (tr)—tarsungula, (vp)—ventral projection of pretarsus of maxilla 2.