Cryptops Leach, 1814

Jonishi, Taro & Nakano, Takafumi, 2022, Correct Authorships, Synonymies, and Remarks on the Type Series of Fourteen Names of Centipedes Introduced by Yoshioki Takakuwa in 1934 and Mecistocephalus takakuwai (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha and Scolopendromorpha), Species Diversity 27 (1), pp. 71-81 : 78

Genus Cryptops Leach, 1814 Cryptops japonicus Takakuwa, 1934e [Japanese name: Nihon-menashimukade]

Cryptops japonicus Takakuwa, 1934e: 389–390 , fig. 14 (available name).

Crytops [sic] japonicus Takakuwa, 1934f: 404–405 (invalidly described as new; also as Cryptops japonicus on p. 405, figs 12, 13); Takakuwa 1936: 236–237; Song et al. 2010: 378, table 1; Lewis 2013: 15, figs 37, 38.

Cryptops japonicus (without attribution): Takakuwa 1940b: 63–65, figs 66–68; Takakuwa in Kishida and Takakuwa 1949: 940, fig. 2689; Miyosi and Takakuwa 1971: 733; Chao and Chang 2003: 4, fig. 16, table 1; Chao and Chang 2008: 14, fig. 9E, F; Shinohara et al. 2015: 879, 893, 905, fig. 5 (893).

Type series. Takakuwa (1934e) did not designate any types, but did state that the description was based on five specimens, which consisted of a male and four females, while Takashima (1954) stated four syntypes were preserved by Miyosi. We could not find any of the syntypes in the Miyosi Collection and assume they have been lost.

Type locality. Kokura (now in Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture), Kyushu, Japan .

Japanese name. The name “Nihon-menashimukade” introduced by Takakuwa (1934e) for this species.

Remarks. In ChiloBase 2.0 (Bonato et al. 2016l), the authorship of japonicus is cited as Takakuwa (1934f) but should be corrected to Takakuwa (1934e).