Cryptops ( Cryptops ) Leach, 1814

(!) Cryptops ( Cryptops) Leach, 1814 View in CoL

Figs 29, 30 View FIGURES 26–32

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 View FIGURES 26–32 ). Pretarsus of maxillae 2 more or less curved (sometimes hooked, Fig. 30 View FIGURES 26–32 ), 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 View FIGURES 26–32 ). Dorsal brush of maxilla 2 longer (sometimes slightly shorter) than corresponding pretarsus. Anterior margin of forcipular coxosternite virtually straight or bilobed ( Fig. 29 View FIGURES 26–32 ), 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 View FIGURES 26–32 ). 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) .