Cryptopidae
{{Short description|Family of centipedes}}
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| image = Cryptops_hortensis_Rombas_11.JPG
| image_caption = Cryptops hortensis
| taxon = Cryptopidae
| authority = Kohlrausch, 1881
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision = {{center|See text}}
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The Cryptopidae are a family of scolopendromorph centipedes. Cryptopids are blind (lacking ocelli) and possess 21 pairs of legs.{{Cite book |last1=Bonato |first1=Lucio |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/812207443 |title=The Myriapoda. Volume 1 |last2=Edgecombe |first2=Gregory D. |last3=Zapparoli |first3=Marzio |publisher=Brill |year=2011 |isbn=978-90-04-18826-6 |editor-last=Minelli |editor-first=Alessandro |location=Leiden |pages=363–443 |chapter=Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview |oclc=812207443}} The genus Cryptops is the numerically largest in the family, comprising over 150 species worldwide.{{cite journal|last=Balan|first=Dhanya|author2=P.M. Sureshan|author3=Vinod Khanna|title=A new species of centipede of the genus Cryptops Leach (Scolopendromorpha: Cryptopidae) from southern Western Ghats with a key to the species of Cryptops in India|journal=Journal of Threatened Taxa|year=2012|volume=4|issue=4|pages=2510–2514|doi=10.11609/jott.o3035.2510-4|doi-access=free}}
Classification
The following genera, may be included:[https://www.gbif.org/species/4085 GBIF]: Family Cryptopidae{{cite web|title=Chilobase: a web resource for Chilopoda taxonomy.|url=http://chilobase.bio.unipd.it/|access-date=14 October 2013|author1=Minelli, A.|author2=Bonato, L.|author3=Dioguardi, R.|display-authors=etal|archive-date=23 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110423203659/http://chilobase.bio.unipd.it/|url-status=dead}}
- Cryptops Leach, 1814
- Eremops Bollman, 1893
- Mimops Kraepelin, 1903
- Paracryptops Pocock, 1891
- Tonkinodentus Schileyko, 1992
- Trigonocryptops Verhoeff, 1906
The genera Plutonium and Theatops Newport, 1844, formerly classified in the cryptopid subfamily Plutoniuminae, are now placed in the recently elevated family Plutoniumidae.{{cite journal | title=Discovery of the centipede family Plutoniumidae (Chilopoda) in Asia: A new species of Theatops from China, and the taxonomic value of spiracle distributions in Scolopendromorpha | year=2010 | last1=Di | first1=Zhiyong | last2=Cao | first2=Zhijian | last3=Wu | first3=Yingliang | last4=Yin | first4=Shijin | last5=Edgecombe | first5=Gregory D. | last6=Li | first6=Wenxin | journal=Zootaxa | volume=2667 | pages=51–63 | doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.2667.1.4 | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236009688 | via=ResearchGate}}
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