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<taxonomicName LSID="http://species-id.net/wiki/Cryptops_decoratus" authority="Lawrence, 1960" authorityName="Lawrence" authorityYear="1960" class="Chilopoda" family="Cryptopidae" genus="Cryptops" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cryptops decoratus" order="Scolopendromorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="decoratus">Cryptops decoratus Lawrence, 1960</taxonomicName>
Figs 28-30
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<subSubSection pageId="7" pageNumber="18" type="reference_group">
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="18">
<taxonomicName class="Chilopoda" family="Cryptopidae" genus="Cryptops" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cryptops decoratus" order="Scolopendromorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="decoratus">Cryptops decoratus</taxonomicName>
<bibRefCitation author="Lawrence, RF" journalOrPublisher="L'Institut de Recherche Scientifique, Tananarive-Tsimbazaza" pageId="24" pageNumber="35" title="Faune de Madagascar 12. Myriapodes Chilopodes." year="1960">Lawrence, 1960</bibRefCitation>
Faune de Madagascar 12. Myriapodes Chilopodes, p. 84, fig. 25 c, d, 26 a-d.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="18">
<taxonomicName class="Chilopoda" family="Cryptopidae" genus="Cryptops" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cryptops penicillatus" order="Scolopendromorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="penicillatus">Cryptops penicillatus</taxonomicName>
<bibRefCitation author="Lawrence, RF" journalOrPublisher="L'Institut de Recherche Scientifique, Tananarive-Tsimbazaza" pageId="24" pageNumber="35" title="Faune de Madagascar 12. Myriapodes Chilopodes." year="1960">Lawrence, 1960</bibRefCitation>
Faune de Madagascar 12. Myriapodes Chilopodes, p. 76, fig. 22 a-d. Syn. n.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="18">
<taxonomicName class="Chilopoda" family="Cryptopidae" genus="Cryptops" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cryptops nec subsp. decoratus" order="Scolopendromorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="nec" subSpecies="decoratus">nec Cryptops decoratus</taxonomicName>
<bibRefCitation author="Lewis, JGE" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Natural History" pageId="24" pageNumber="35" pagination="79 - 106" title="The scolopendromorph centipedes of Mauritius and Rodrigues and their adjacent islets (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha)." url="doi:10.1080/00222930110098508" volume="36" year="2002">Lewis, 2002</bibRefCitation>
J. Nat. Hist. 36: 95, figs 27-35.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="18">
<taxonomicName class="Chilopoda" family="Cryptopidae" genus="Cryptops" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cryptops nec subsp. decoratus" order="Scolopendromorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="nec" subSpecies="decoratus">nec Cryptops decoratus</taxonomicName>
:
<bibRefCitation author="Lewis, JGE" journalOrPublisher="Phelsuma" pageId="24" pageNumber="35" pagination="8 - 25" title="Scolopendromorph centipedes from Seychelles with a review of previous records (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha)." volume="15" year="2007 b">Lewis, 2007b</bibRefCitation>
Phelsuma 15: 18, figs 17-25.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="18">
<taxonomicName class="Chilopoda" family="Cryptopidae" genus="Cryptops" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cryptops nec subsp. decoratus" order="Scolopendromorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="nec" subSpecies="decoratus">nec Cryptops decoratus</taxonomicName>
:
<bibRefCitation author="Lewis, JGE" editor="Gerlach, J" journalOrPublisher="Siri Scientific Press, Manchester" pageId="24" pageNumber="35" pagination="379 - 386" title="Order Scolopendromorpha Pocock, 1895." volumeTitle="The Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles Islands." year="2010 a">Lewis, 2010a</bibRefCitation>
In: Gerlach J, Marusik Y (Eds) The Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles Islands, p. 283, figs 14-15.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="7" pageNumber="18" type="material examined">
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="18">Material examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="18">
MNHN. Holotype [Madagascar Sambirano]. Mt. Tsaratanana [Andilabe] 2200 m. II 51 RP [R. Paulian,
<normalizedToken originalValue="févr">fevr</normalizedToken>
, 1951]. (Forcipules are missing).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="7" pageNumber="18" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="18">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="18">
(Based on
<taxonomicName class="Chilopoda" family="Cryptopidae" genus="Cryptops" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cryptops decoratus" order="Scolopendromorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="decoratus">Cryptops decoratus</taxonomicName>
sensu
<bibRefCitation author="Lawrence, RF" journalOrPublisher="L'Institut de Recherche Scientifique, Tananarive-Tsimbazaza" pageId="24" pageNumber="35" title="Faune de Madagascar 12. Myriapodes Chilopodes." year="1960">Lawrence (1960)</bibRefCitation>
and
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. See below for description of
<taxonomicName class="Chilopoda" family="Cryptopidae" genus="Cryptops" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cryptops penicillatus" order="Scolopendromorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="18" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="penicillatus">Cryptops penicillatus</taxonomicName>
). Length: 14-16.5 mm. With or without dark subcuticular pigment. Cephalic plate and tergite 1 without sutures. Poison gland calyx spherical, situated in anterior region of forcipular trochanteroprefemur. Anterior margin of forcipular coxosternite almost straight with 1+2 or 2+2 long submarginal setae on each side. Sternites with wide longitudinal sulcus, very narrow transverse sulcus. Posterior margin of sternite 21 straight or slightly concave. Pore field widely separated from caudal margin of coxopleuron, with 6-9 pores and 3-6 minute setae; 5-9 setae between it and the coxopleural margin. Ultimate legs with 4-5 tibial and 2-4 tarsal saw teeth. Pretarsal accessory spurs of legs 1-20 short.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection lastPageId="8" lastPageNumber="19" pageId="7" pageNumber="18" type="description of holotype">
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="18">Description of holotype.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="18">
(Additional data from
<bibRefCitation author="Lawrence, RF" journalOrPublisher="L'Institut de Recherche Scientifique, Tananarive-Tsimbazaza" pageId="24" pageNumber="35" title="Faune de Madagascar 12. Myriapodes Chilopodes." year="1960">Lawrence (1960)</bibRefCitation>
in parentheses).
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="18">Length 14 mm. Colour after preservation for 48 years uniform greyish orange (yellow with green black pigment forming a central double band and along lateral margins from tergite 2).</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="18">
Cephalic plate without sutures. Tergite 1 without sutures and overlying posterior margin of cephalic plate. (Anterior margin of coxosternite almost straight with 1+2 long submarginal and 1+2 shorter setae on each side. Poison gland calyx spherical, situated in anterior part of forcipular trochanteroprefemur [these data from
<bibRefCitation author="Archey, A" journalOrPublisher="Record of the Canterbury Museum" pageId="24" pageNumber="35" pagination="203 - 220" title="The genus Cryptops (Chilopoda) in New Zealand." volume="2" year="1924">Lawrence 1960</bibRefCitation>
, fig. 25 c]).
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="7" pageNumber="18">
Tergites with median ridge from 3 (5-20). Paramedian sutures from 5 (
<normalizedToken originalValue="“sillons”">&quot;sillons&quot;</normalizedToken>
from 5 or 6-20). Lateral crescentic sulci from 3-20 (5-19). Tergite 21 with posterior median depression. Sternites with cruciform sulci, the longitudinal sulcus longer and wider than the narrow lateral arms (the longitudinal sulcus present on all segments, the transverse weak and absent on anterior half of trunk). (Sternite 21 with posterior margin straight or slightly concave). Sternite 21 was not figured by
<bibRefCitation author="Lawrence, RF" journalOrPublisher="L'Institut de Recherche Scientifique, Tananarive-Tsimbazaza" pageId="24" pageNumber="35" title="Faune de Madagascar 12. Myriapodes Chilopodes." year="1960">Lawrence (1960)</bibRefCitation>
and shape could not be seen in the holotype.
</paragraph>
<paragraph lastPageId="8" lastPageNumber="19" pageId="7" pageNumber="18">
Coxopleuron with 8 large pores (7-9) occupying anterior 50% of coxopleuron and with at least 3 minute setae in pore field; 3 or 4 fine setae on posterior margin and up to 5 between this and the pore field (several moderately long setae between the pores
<pageBreakToken pageId="8" pageNumber="19" start="start">)</pageBreakToken>
(Fig. 28). Prefemur of ultimate legs with long fine setae dorsally, but thicker setae on lateral, ventral and medial surfaces (Fig. 29) without medial longitudinal glabrous area. Femur with long fine setae, those of medial surface thicker. (End legs with numerous strong setae). Tibia with 4, tarsus 1 with 2 saw teeth (5+2/3). Legs 1-19 with fine setae, tarsi undivided, pretarsal accessory spurs very short (Fig. 30).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="8" pageNumber="19" type="distribution">
<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="19">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="19">Madagascar.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="8" pageNumber="19" type="remarks">
<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="19">Remarks.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="19">
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(from Madagascar Centre and Madagascar Sambirano) is very similar to
<taxonomicName class="Chilopoda" family="Cryptopidae" genus="Cryptops" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cryptops decoratus" order="Scolopendromorpha" pageId="8" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="decoratus">Cryptops decoratus</taxonomicName>
(from Madagascar Sambirano, Madagascar Nord and Madagascar Est). These are distinguished in
<normalizedToken originalValue="Lawrence’s">Lawrence's</normalizedToken>
(1960) key as follows:
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="19">
<table pageId="8" pageNumber="19">
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<tr pageId="8" pageNumber="19">
<td colspan="1" pageId="8" pageNumber="19" rowspan="1">Cryptops penicillatus</td>
</tr>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicName class="Chilopoda" family="Cryptopidae" genus="Cryptops" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cryptops decoratus" order="Scolopendromorpha" pageId="8" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="decoratus">
<tr pageId="8" pageNumber="19">
<td colspan="1" pageId="8" pageNumber="19" rowspan="1">Cryptops decoratus</td>
</tr>
</taxonomicName>
</table>
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="19">
His key, however, does not tally with the text which states that
<taxonomicName class="Chilopoda" family="Cryptopidae" genus="Cryptops" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cryptops penicillatus" order="Scolopendromorpha" pageId="8" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="penicillatus">Cryptops penicillatus</taxonomicName>
is without transverse sulci on the sternites and
<taxonomicName class="Chilopoda" family="Cryptopidae" genus="Cryptops" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cryptops decoratus" order="Scolopendromorpha" pageId="8" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="decoratus">Cryptops decoratus</taxonomicName>
the transverse sulci are weak. These do not tally with my observations on the two holotypes which both have a broad longitudinal and a narrow transverse sulcus and thus do not differentiate the species. I regard the two as conspecific
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being a
<taxonomicName class="Chilopoda" family="Cryptopidae" genus="Cryptops" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cryptops decoratus" order="Scolopendromorpha" pageId="8" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="decoratus">Cryptops decoratus</taxonomicName>
lacking dark subcutaneous pigment.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="19">
NB.
<bibRefCitation author="Lawrence, RF" journalOrPublisher="L'Institut de Recherche Scientifique, Tananarive-Tsimbazaza" pageId="24" pageNumber="35" title="Faune de Madagascar 12. Myriapodes Chilopodes." year="1960">Lawrence (1960)</bibRefCitation>
noted variation in the intensity of pigmentation of his specimens of
<taxonomicName class="Chilopoda" family="Cryptopidae" genus="Cryptops" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cryptops decoratus" order="Scolopendromorpha" pageId="8" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="decoratus">Cryptops decoratus</taxonomicName>
, the example from Navana being more pigmented than the others. Both
<normalizedToken originalValue="“species”">&quot;species&quot;</normalizedToken>
were described in the same work by
<bibRefCitation author="Lawrence, RF" journalOrPublisher="L'Institut de Recherche Scientifique, Tananarive-Tsimbazaza" pageId="24" pageNumber="35" title="Faune de Madagascar 12. Myriapodes Chilopodes." year="1960">Lawrence (1960)</bibRefCitation>
. In such a case the first reviewer is to fix precedence (ICZN Article 24.2.2).
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is here selected as the senior synonym being the more common form (recorded from 7 localities as compared to 2 for
<taxonomicName class="Chilopoda" family="Cryptopidae" genus="Cryptops" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cryptops penicillatus" order="Scolopendromorpha" pageId="8" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="penicillatus">Cryptops penicillatus</taxonomicName>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="8" pageNumber="19" type="other material hitherto assigned to cryptops decoratus">
<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="19">
Other material hitherto assigned to
<taxonomicName class="Chilopoda" family="Cryptopidae" genus="Cryptops" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cryptops decoratus" order="Scolopendromorpha" pageId="8" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="decoratus">Cryptops decoratus</taxonomicName>
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="19">Figs 31-38</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="19">
<bibRefCitation author="Lewis, JGE" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Natural History" pageId="24" pageNumber="35" pagination="79 - 106" title="The scolopendromorph centipedes of Mauritius and Rodrigues and their adjacent islets (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha)." url="doi:10.1080/00222930110098508" volume="36" year="2002">Lewis (2002)</bibRefCitation>
assigned specimens from Mauritius and the Seychelles (
<bibRefCitation author="Lewis, JGE" journalOrPublisher="Phelsuma" pageId="24" pageNumber="35" pagination="8 - 25" title="Scolopendromorph centipedes from Seychelles with a review of previous records (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha)." volume="15" year="2007 b">Lewis 2007b</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation author="Lewis, JGE" editor="Gerlach, J" journalOrPublisher="Siri Scientific Press, Manchester" pageId="24" pageNumber="35" pagination="379 - 386" title="Order Scolopendromorpha Pocock, 1895." volumeTitle="The Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles Islands." year="2010 a">2010a</bibRefCitation>
) to
<taxonomicName class="Chilopoda" family="Cryptopidae" genus="Cryptops" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cryptops decoratus" order="Scolopendromorpha" pageId="8" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="decoratus">Cryptops decoratus</taxonomicName>
.The material is here reconsidered.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection lastPageId="9" lastPageNumber="20" pageId="8" pageNumber="19" type="description of mauritius and seychelles material">
<paragraph pageId="8" pageNumber="19">Description of Mauritius and Seychelles material.</paragraph>
<paragraph lastPageId="9" lastPageNumber="20" pageId="8" pageNumber="19">
(The latter in parentheses where appropriate). Length: 10-15 (7.5-14) mm. With dark subcuticular pigment, though very little in specimens from Serpent Island as compared to those from Round Island (only 5 of 15 specimens from the Seychelles had black or grey subcuticular pigmentation the remainder showed no dark colouration). Cephalic plate and T1 without sutures. Clypeus with 2+1+2+6 (Fig. 34) or 2+1+2+2+6 setae. Anterior margin of forcipular coxosternite slightly curved on each side with 2+2 or 2+3 or 3+3 long submarginal setae (Fig. 31) (2+2). Poison gland calyx subspherical, situated in anterior region of forcipular trochanteroprefemur (Fig. 32). Posterior margin of sternite 21 straight or slightly curved (mostly with rounded
<pageBreakToken pageId="9" pageNumber="20" start="start">posterior</pageBreakToken>
margin, rarely straight) (Fig. 35). Pore field occupying anterior 60-70% of coxopleuron, with 7-16 pores (8-14), 5-8 small setae in the pore field (4-6) and 1-3(4) between it and the coxopleural margin ((0)1-2) (Fig. 36). Ultimate leg prefemora with broad medial longitudinal glabrous area with 5-7 tibial and 3-4 tarsal saw teeth (Fig. 37).
<bibRefCitation author="Lewis, JGE" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Natural History" pageId="24" pageNumber="35" pagination="79 - 106" title="The scolopendromorph centipedes of Mauritius and Rodrigues and their adjacent islets (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha)." url="doi:10.1080/00222930110098508" volume="36" year="2002">Lewis (2002)</bibRefCitation>
described the setae on the anterior, ventral and posterior surfaces of theprefemur of ultimate legs as
<normalizedToken originalValue="“spine-like”">&quot;spine-like&quot;</normalizedToken>
but his Fig. 41 shows them to be just a little thickened.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="20">Pretarsal accessory spurs of legs 1-20, the posterior 40% length of pretarsus the anterior slightly shorter but sometimes only 12% of the pretarsal length (Fig. 33). The accessory spurs short in Seychelles material, the second very short and easily overlooked (Fig. 38).</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="9" pageNumber="20" type="remarks">
<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="20">Remarks.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="20">
The specimens from Mauritius and the Seychelles may be differentiated from Madagascan
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by the possession of the glabrous area on the ultimate prefemur and lower number of setae posterior to the coxopleural pore fields. These differences are relatively minor but consistent. They are clearly very closely related to
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Chamberlin, 1921 and are here regarded as belonging to that species although it is known only from a single specimen (see p. 3).
</paragraph>
<caption pageId="9" pageNumber="20">
<paragraph pageId="9" pageNumber="20">
Figures 24-38.
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holotype after
<bibRefCitation author="Lewis, JGE" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Natural History" pageId="24" pageNumber="35" pagination="79 - 106" title="The scolopendromorph centipedes of Mauritius and Rodrigues and their adjacent islets (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha)." url="doi:10.1080/00222930110098508" volume="36" year="2002">Lewis 2002</bibRefCitation>
. 24 Anterior margin of forcipular coxosternite 25 Poison gland calyx 26 Terminal segments ventral 27 Pretarsus leg 11.
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holotype. 28 Left coxopleuron and prefemur of ultimate leg dorsolateral 29 Seta from ultimate leg prefemur 30 Pretarsus of an ambulatory leg. &quot;
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&quot; 31 Anterior margin of forcipular coxosternite (Round Island Mauritius specimen 2). 32 Poison gland (Round Island after
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) 33 Pretarsus leg 12 (Round Island specimen 3) 34 Clypeus (Aride, Seychelles, after
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) 35 Sternite 21 (Aride, after
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) 36 Ultimate leg coxopleuron (Aride specimen 2) 37 Tibial and tarsal saw teeth ultimate leg (Silhouette, after
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) 38 Pretarsus, leg mid body region (Silhouette specimen L2). Scale lines = 0.1 mm except Fig. 28 = 0.5 mm, Figs 35, 36 = 0.25 mm, Figs 29, 30, 32, 38 = 0.05 mm.
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