ChiloBase 2.0

Recommended citation:
Bonato L., Chagas Junior A.,
Edgecombe G.D. Lewis J.G.E.,
Minelli A., Pereira L.A.,
Shelley R.M., Stoev P.,
Zapparoli M. (2016)
ChiloBase 2.0 - A World Catalogue
of Centipedes (Chilopoda).
Available at https://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it.

Cryptops socotrensis Pocock, 1903

Original description: Pocock R.I. (1903). Myriapoda. In: Forbes H. O. (ed.), The Natural History of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kur - Bulletin of the Liverpool Museum (Special Bulletin), 427-439, see p. 433.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Cryptopidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Cryptops Leach, 1815

Type locality: Socotra, Adho Dimellus

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Attems C. (1930). Myriopoda. 2. Scolopendromorpha - Das Tierreich. De Gruyter, Berlin, 54: 1-308, see p. 235.

Distribution:

-- within Africa: Socotra

Notes: A dubious species according to Attems (1930 - Tierreich)