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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 punicus Silvestri, 1896

Original description: Silvestri F. (1896). Una escursione in Tunisia (Symphyla Chilopoda Diplopoda) - Naturalista Siciliano , 143-161, see p. 151.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Cryptopidae

Original rank: varietas

Original genus: Cryptops Leach, 1815

Type locality: Tunisi

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Akkari A., Stoev P. & Lewis J. G. E. (2008). The scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha) of Tunisia; taxonomy, distribution and habitats - ZooKeys, 3: 77-102, see p. 94.

Distribution:

-- within Africa: Algeria; Tunisia

-- within Europe: Italy

Notes: Attems (1930 - Tierreich, 54: 221) gave Cryptops anomalans var. punicus as a synonym of Cryptops anomalans Newport, 1844, having overlooked Brolemann (1928).