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 positus Chamberlin, 1939

Original description: Chamberlin R.V. (1939). Four new centipeds of the genus Cryptops - Pan-Pacific Entomologist , 15: 63-65, see p. 64.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Cryptopidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Cryptops Leach, 1815

Type locality: Honduras, intercepted in quarantine at New Orleans

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Chamberlin R.V. (1939). Four new centipeds of the genus Cryptops - Pan-Pacific Entomologist , 15: 63-65, see p. 64.

Distribution:

-- within Africa: Kenya

Notes: Bücherl (1974, Symp. Zool. Soc. London, 32: 122) gave the original description (incorrectly) as in Chamberlin, 1940 - Psyche 47: 66.