(!) 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) .