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 japonicus Takakuwa, 1934

Original description: Takakuwa Y. (1934). Sechs neue Arten der Chilopoden aus Japan - Transactions of the Sapporo Natural History Society , 13: 398-406, see p. 404.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Cryptopidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Cryptops Leach, 1815

Type locality: Kokura, Kyusyu

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Takakuwa Y. (1936). Über die japanischen Cryptops-Arten - Transactions of the Sapporo Natural History Society , 14: 236-241, see p. 236.

Distribution:

-- within Asia-Temperate: Taiwan

Notes: Specimens from Vietnam identified as C. japonicus by Schileyko (1998, 2001) are C. doriae (Schileyko, 2007 - Arthropoda Selecta 16: 90).