Genus Cryphocricos

Cryphocricos Signoret 1850: Rev. Mag. Zool. Appl. 2: 290–291.

Cryphocricus: Mayr 1866, Nov. Exp. Zool. 182 (misspelling).

Cryptocricus: Stål 1876, Kong. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl. 14: 141, 143 (misspelling).

Cryphocricus: Champion 1901, Biol. Cent. Amer. 2: 354 (misspelling).

Type species by monotypy: Cryphocricos barozzii Signoret, 1850: 291 .

Distribution. This genus is exclusively New World and primarily Neotropical in distribution, although with the incursion of one species into the Nearctic region.