scrollText=<FONT COLOR="#660033"><FONT SIZE="20"><I>Cryptops haasei</I><P></P><FONT COLOR="#666666">Click on <I>Cryptops spinipes</I> to return to the species description.<P></P><FONT COLOR="#660033"><FONT SIZE="22"><b>Remarks from Catalogue</b><P></P><FONT COLOR="#666666"><FONT SIZE="20">There are no good quality illustrations of this species that show diagnostic characters. The rather detailed description given by Attems (1930; 227) contains a number of closely similar character states to <i>Cryptops spinipes</i> in the careful redescription by Archey (1924). Both species possess the following characters:<p></p>1) head with complete paramedian grooves;<p></p>2) tergite 1 with transverse groove ('collar sulcus') anteriorly; complete paramedian grooves commencing on tergites 2 or 3; incomplete paramedian grooves ontergites 1 (and 2);<p></p>3) Anterior margin of coxosternite shallowly bilobed with 3-8 moderately stout marginal setae;<p></p>4) lateral crescentic grooves on tergites 3-20;<p></p>5) sternites punctate;<p></p>6) prefemur, femur and tibia with stout, blunt setae. There is nothing in the descriptions that clearly differentiates the two species. In particular, the arrangement of paramedian grooves on the head and tergites is almost identical in the two species, and very different from the other Australian taxa. The species are probably synonymous, although confirmation of this requires an examination of the types.</p><Br><Br>References<Br><Br>Archey, G. 1924. The genus <i>Cryptops</i> (Chilopoda) in New Zealand. <i>Records of the Canterbury Museum</i>, 2 (4): 203-219.<Br><Br>Attems, C.G. 1930. Myriapoda. 2. Scolopendromorpha. <i>Das Tierreich</i>, Lief. 54. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 308 pp.