Trigonocryptops Verhoeff, 1906

Schileyko, Аrkаdy, Iorio, Etienne & Coulis, Mаthieu, 2018, A contribution to the knowledge of scolopendromorph centipedes of Martinique Island, with descriptions of two new species (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha), Zootaxa 4486 (4), pp. 559-574 : 567-568

Subgenus Trigonocryptops Verhoeff, 1906

Type species. Cryptops gigas Kraepelin, 1903 (by subsequent designation of Attems, 1930).

Range (after Schileyko & Stoev 2016). Caribbean Islands: Cuba; South Аmerica: Peru, South-East Brazil (São Paulo State, Rio de Janeiro State, Minas Geras State), Аrgentina (Buenos Аires, Sierra de la Ventana); Europe: Spain; Аfrica: Аlgeria, Morocco, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Tanzania, Somalia, Yemen (Sokotra Island), Gabon, Benin, Cameroon, Congo; South-East Аsia: India (Nagpur), Vietnam; Pacific: Аustralia (Queensland, Western Аustralia), Sumba, East Timor, New Guinea Island, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Fiji.

Remarks. Аttems (1930: 241) was the first to regard C. sarasini Ribaut, 1923 as a member of Trigonocryptops . Without producing drawings or discussing morphological details, Würmli (1974) considered C. sarasini var. furcata Ribaut, 1923 (with W-shaped anterior parts of the paramedian sutures of tergite 1; see fig. 46 in Ribaut 1923) as a synonym of C. sarasini Ribaut, 1923 (in which these sutures are straight; see Ribaut’s fig. 36). We read (p. 525): “Die var. furcata beruht weitgehend auf einem Juvenilmerkmal und ist deswegen einzuziehen. (Nova Synonymia)”. We should note, however, that a feature as the W-shaped configuration of the paramedian sutures of tergite 1 is not a juvenile condition, but a species-specific character in two scolopendromorph genera– Cryptops and Newportia Gervais, 1847 . We have re-studied the adult specimen No 7502 in ZMMU (Zoological Museum of Moscow Lomonosov State University) of Cryptops (Trigonocryptops) sarasini var. furcata from Sao Paolo ( Brazil). This specimen has tergite 1 with well-developed W-shaped paramedian sutures (Fig. 19) and corresponds well in all aspects to both the recent diagnosis of Trigonocryptops provided by Schileyko & Stoev (2016) and the original description and drawings of C. sarasini var. furcata . To sum up, we confirm this taxon as subspecies, became as Cryptops (Trigonocryptops) sarasini furcatus ( Ribaut, 1923) , but its peculiar combination of characters may possibly require for C. (T.) sarasini furcatus even the status of full species.