Cryptocellus

{{Short description|Genus of spider-like animals}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Cryptocellus goodnighti.jpg | image_caption = ''Cryptocellus goodnighti'' | taxon = Cryptocellus | authority = Westwood, 1874 | type_species = ''Cryptocellus foedus'' | type_species_authority = Westwood, 1874 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 45, see text | synonyms = {{Species list | Heteroricinoides | Dumitresco & Juvara-balş, 1977<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Platnick |first1=Norman |last2=Shadab |first2=Mohammad |date=1977 |title=On Amazonian Cryptocellus (Arachnida, Ricinulei) |journal=American Museum Novitates |issue=2633 |pages=1–17}}</ref> }} }}

'''''Cryptocellus''''' is an arachnid genus in the order Ricinulei, first described by John Westwood in 1874. It is native to the Neotropics.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Westwood |first=John |title=Thesaurus entomologicus Oxoniensis |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1874 |location=Oxford}}</ref>

== Species == {{as of|2022|10}} it contains forty-five species:<ref name="NMBE">{{cite journal |year=2022 |title=Genus: ''Cryptocellus'' Westwood, 1874 |url=https://wac.nmbe.ch/order/ricinulei/species/658 |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |doi= |access-date=13 October 2022 |website=World Ricinulei Catalog}}</ref> * ''Cryptocellus abaporu'' Bonaldo & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2003 — Brazil * ''Cryptocellus adisi'' Platnick, 1988 — Brazil * ''Cryptocellus albosquamatus'' Cooke, 1967 — Guyana * ''Cryptocellus becki'' Platnick & Shadab, 1977 — Brazil * ''Cryptocellus bocas'' Platnick & Shadab, 1981 — Panama * ''Cryptocellus bordoni'' (Dumitresco & Juvara-balş, 1977) — Venezuela * ''Cryptocellus brignolii'' Cokendolpher, 2000 — Suriname * ''Cryptocellus canga'' Pinto-da-Rocha & Andrade, 2012 — Brazil * ''Cryptocellus canutama'' Botero-Trujillo, Carvalho, Florez D. & Prendini, 2021 — Brazil * ''Cryptocellus centralis'' Fage, 1921 — Costa Rica * ''Cryptocellus chimaera'' Botero-Trujillo & Valdez-Mondragón, 2016 — Ecuador * ''Cryptocellus chiriqui'' Platnick & Shadab, 1981 — Costa Rica, Panama * ''Cryptocellus chiruisla'' Botero-Trujillo & Flórez D., 2017 — Ecuador * ''Cryptocellus conori'' Tourinho & Saturnino, 2010 — Brazil * ''Cryptocellus fagei'' Cooke & Shadab, 1973 — Costa Rica * ''Cryptocellus florezi'' Platnick & García, 2008 — Colombia * ''Cryptocellus foedus'' Westwood, 1874 — Brazil * ''Cryptocellus gamboa'' Platnick & Shadab, 1981 — Panama * ''Cryptocellus glenoides'' Cooke & Shadab, 1973 — Colombia * ''Cryptocellus goodnighti'' Platnick & Shadab, 1981 — Costa Rica * ''Cryptocellus guaviarensis'' Botero-Trujillo & Flórez D., 2018 — Colombia * ''Cryptocellus hanseni'' Cooke & Shadab, 1973 — Honduras, Nicaragua * ''Cryptocellus iaci'' Tourinho, Man-Hung & Bonaldo, 2010 — Brazil * ''Cryptocellus icamiabas'' Tourinho & de Azevedo, 2007 — Brazil * ''Cryptocellus islacolon'' Botero-Trujillo, Carvalho, Florez D. & Prendini, 2021 — Panama * ''Cryptocellus isthmius'' Cooke & Shadab, 1973 — Panama * ''Cryptocellus jamari'' Botero-Trujillo, Carvalho, Florez D. & Prendini, 2021 — Brazil * ''Cryptocellus lampeli'' Cooke, 1967 — Guyana * ''Cryptocellus leleupi'' Cooreman, 1976 — Ecuador * ''Cryptocellus lisbethae'' González-Sponga, 1998 — Venezuela * ''Cryptocellus luisedieri'' Botero-Trujillo & Pérez, 2009 — Colombia * ''Cryptocellus macagual'' Botero-Trujillo, Carvalho, Florez D. & Prendini, 2021 — Colombia * ''Cryptocellus magnus'' Ewing, 1929 — Colombia * ''Cryptocellus muiraquitan'' Tourinho, Lo-Man-Hung & Salvatierra, 2014 — Brazil * ''Cryptocellus narino'' Platnick & Paz, 1979 — Colombia * ''Cryptocellus osa'' Platnick & Shadab, 1981 — Costa Rica * ''Cryptocellus peckorum'' Platnick & Shadab, 1977 — Colombia * ''Cryptocellus platnicki'' Botero-Trujillo & Pérez, 2008 — Colombia * ''Cryptocellus pseudocellatus'' Roewer, 1952 — Peru * ''Cryptocellus simonis'' Hansen & Sørensen, 1904 — Brazil * ''Cryptocellus sofiae'' Botero-Trujillo, 2014 — Colombia * ''Cryptocellus striatipes'' Cooke & Shadab, 1973 — Costa Rica * ''Cryptocellus tarsilae'' Pinto-da-Rocha & Bonaldo, 2007 — Brazil * ''Cryptocellus verde'' Platnick & Shadab, 1981 — Costa Rica * ''Cryptocellus whitticki'' Platnick & Shadab, 1977 — Guyana

== References== {{Reflist}} * {{cite journal |author1=Kay Pittard |author2=Robert W. Mitchell |year=1972 |title=Comparative morphology of the life stages of ''Cryptocellus pelaezi'' (Arachnida, Ricinulei) |journal=Graduate Studies |publisher=Texas Tech University |volume=1 |pages=3–77}} * {{cite journal |author1=Mario Ludwig |author2=José G. Palacios-Vargas |author3=Gerd Alberti |year=1994 |title=Cellular details of the midgut of ''Cryptocellus boneti'' (Arachnida: Ricinulei) |journal=Journal of Morphology |volume=220 |issue=3 |pages=263–270 |doi=10.1002/jmor.1052200305 |pmid=29865385|bibcode=1994JMorp.220..263L |s2cid=46930292 }} * {{cite journal |author1=Gerd Alberti |author2=José G. Palacios-Vargas |year=1984 |title=Fine structure of spermatogenesis and mature spermatozoa in ''Cryptocellus boneti'' Bolivar y Pieltain, 1941 (Arachnida, Ricinulei) |journal=Journal of Ultrastructure Research |volume=87 |issue=1 |pages=1–12 |doi=10.1016/S0022-5320(84)90111-4}} * {{cite journal |author=Joachim Adis, Benjamin Messner & Norman Platnick |year=1999 |title=Morphological structures and vertical distribution in the soil indicate facultative plastron respiration in ''Cryptocellus adisi'' (Arachnida, Ricinulei) from Central Amazonia |journal=Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=1–9 |doi=10.1076/snfe.34.1.1.8915 |bibcode=1999SNFE...34....1A }} * {{cite journal |author=J. A. L. Cooke |year=1967 |title=Observations on the biology of Ricinulei (Arachnida) with descriptions of two new species of ''Cryptocellus'' |journal=Journal of Zoology |volume=151 |issue=1 |pages=31–42 |doi=10.1111/j.1469-7998.1967.tb02864.x}}

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Category:Arachnid genera Category:Ricinulei Category:Arthropods of Central America Category:Taxa named by John O. Westwood