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Cryptopidae

Family of centipedes

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Cryptops hortensis
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Classification

The following genera, may be included:

  1. Cryptops Leach, 1814
  2. Eremops Bollman, 1893
  3. Mimops Kraepelin, 1903
  4. Paracryptops Pocock, 1891
  5. Tonkinodentus Schileyko, 1992
  6. 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.

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