Cryptops (Paracryptops) Pocock, 1891


Paracryptops Pocock, 1891 [subgenus of Cryptops Leach, 1815].

Original description: Pocock R.I. (1891). Notes on the synonymy of some species of Scolopendridae with descriptions of new genera and species of the group - Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (6)7: 51-58; 221-31, see p. 227..

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Cryptopidae

Original rank: subgenus

Type species: Paracryptops weberi Pocock, 1891 - by monotypy

Synonymy: Schileyko A. A:, Vahtera V., Edgecombe G. D. (2020). An overview of the extant genera and subgenera of the order Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda): a new identification key and updated diagnoses - Zootaxa, 4825 (1): 001-064, see p. 22.