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 philammus Attems, 1928

Original description: Attems C. (1928). The Myriopoda of South Africa - Annals of the South African Museum , 26: 1-431, see p. 87.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Cryptopidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Cryptops Leach, 1815

Type locality: South Africa, Western Cape: Gt. Winterhoek; Kalk Bay; Table Mountain

Synonym(s):

• Cryptops orthus Chamberlin, 1951

Subspecies:

• Cryptops philammus gabonensis Demange, 1968
• Cryptops philammus philammus Attems, 1928

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Demange J.-M. (1969). Myriapodes chilopodes du Gabon - Biologia Gabonica, 4: 281-294, see p. 292.

Distribution:

-- within Africa: Angola; Lesotho