An overview of the extant genera and subgenera of the order Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda): a new identification key and updated diagnoses
Author
Schileyko, Arkady A.
schileyko1965@gmail.com
Author
Vahtera, Varpu
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Author
Edgecombe, Gregory D.
0000-0002-9591-8011
schileyko1965@gmail.com
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-08-10
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Cryptops
(
Cryptops
) Leach, 1814
Figs 29, 30
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
)
.