Cryptops (Cryptops) hortensis (Donovan,1810)



Cryptops (Cryptops) hortensis (Donovan,1810)

Original description: Donovan E. (1810). The Natural History of British Insects - London, 14, see p. 23.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Cryptopidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Scolopendra Linnaeus, 1758

Type locality: "Exeter" (United Kingdom)

Synonym(s):

Subspecies:

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Pichler H. (1987). Neue Nachweise von Cryptops-Arten in Nordtirol und anderen Bundesländern Österreichs (Chilopoda Scolopendromorpha Cryptopidae) - Bericht des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck, 74: 125-139, see p. 126.

Distribution:

-- within Africa: Canary Is.; Madeira; Morocco; St.Helena

-- within Asia-Temperate: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Tadzhikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan

-- within Asia-Tropical: Christmas I.

-- within Australasia: Tasmania

-- within Europe: Albania; Austria; Bosnia-Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Corse; Croatia; Czech Republic; Denmark; France; Germany; Great Britain; Greece; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Macedonia; Montenegro; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Slovakia; Slovenia; Spain; Switzerland; Turkey-in-Europe; Ukraine

-- within Northern America: British Columbia

-- within Pacific: Hawaiian Is.

Notes: Synanthropic in Scandinavia (Sweden, Finland).