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 audax Attems, 1928

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

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Cryptopidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Cryptops Leach, 1815

Type locality: South Africa, Western Cape: Table Mt., Newlands Slope; Kalk Bay; Houw Hoek; St. James; Simonstown; River Zonder End, Mossel Bay; Caledon

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Attems C. (1930). Myriopoda. 2. Scolopendromorpha - Das Tierreich. De Gruyter, Berlin, 54: 1-308, see p. 219.

Notes: Specimens from Vietnam identified as C. audax by Schileyko (1992) are C. doriae. See: Schileyko, A. A. 2007. The scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda) of Vietnam, with contributions to the faunas of Cambodia and Laos. Part 3. Arthropoda Selecta 16: 71-95: see p.90.