# Cryptocellus
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{{Short description|Genus of spider-like animals}}
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| image = Cryptocellus goodnighti.jpg
| image_caption = ''[Cryptocellus goodnighti](/source/Cryptocellus_goodnighti)''
| taxon = Cryptocellus
| authority = [Westwood](/source/John_O._Westwood), 1874
| type_species = ''[Cryptocellus foedus](/source/Cryptocellus_foedus)''
| type_species_authority = Westwood, 1874
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 45, see text
| synonyms = {{Species list
| Heteroricinoides | Dumitresco & Juvara-balş, 1977[{{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}}]
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'''''Cryptocellus''''' is an [arachnid](/source/arachnid) [genus](/source/genus) in the order [Ricinulei](/source/Ricinulei), first described by [John Westwood](/source/John_O._Westwood) in 1874. It is native to the [Neotropics](/source/Neotropical_realm).[{{Cite book |last=Westwood |first=John |title=Thesaurus entomologicus Oxoniensis |publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) |year=1874 |location=Oxford}}]
== Species ==
{{as of|2022|10}} it contains forty-five species:[{{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}}]
* ''[Cryptocellus abaporu](/source/Cryptocellus_abaporu)'' Bonaldo & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2003 — Brazil
* ''[Cryptocellus adisi](/source/Cryptocellus_adisi)'' Platnick, 1988 — Brazil
* ''[Cryptocellus albosquamatus](/source/Cryptocellus_albosquamatus)'' Cooke, 1967 — Guyana
* ''[Cryptocellus becki](/source/Cryptocellus_becki)'' Platnick & Shadab, 1977 — Brazil
* ''[Cryptocellus bocas](/source/Cryptocellus_bocas)'' Platnick & Shadab, 1981 — Panama
* ''[Cryptocellus bordoni](/source/Cryptocellus_bordoni)'' (Dumitresco & Juvara-balş, 1977) — Venezuela
* ''[Cryptocellus brignolii](/source/Cryptocellus_brignolii)'' Cokendolpher, 2000 — Suriname
* ''[Cryptocellus canga](/source/Cryptocellus_canga)'' Pinto-da-Rocha & Andrade, 2012 — Brazil
* ''[Cryptocellus canutama](/source/Cryptocellus_canutama)'' Botero-Trujillo, Carvalho, Florez D. & Prendini, 2021 — Brazil
* ''[Cryptocellus centralis](/source/Cryptocellus_centralis)'' Fage, 1921 — Costa Rica
* ''[Cryptocellus chimaera](/source/Cryptocellus_chimaera)'' Botero-Trujillo & Valdez-Mondragón, 2016 — Ecuador
* ''[Cryptocellus chiriqui](/source/Cryptocellus_chiriqui)'' Platnick & Shadab, 1981 — Costa Rica, Panama
* ''[Cryptocellus chiruisla](/source/Cryptocellus_chiruisla)'' Botero-Trujillo & Flórez D., 2017 — Ecuador
* ''[Cryptocellus conori](/source/Cryptocellus_conori)'' Tourinho & Saturnino, 2010 — Brazil
* ''[Cryptocellus fagei](/source/Cryptocellus_fagei)'' Cooke & Shadab, 1973 — Costa Rica
* ''[Cryptocellus florezi](/source/Cryptocellus_florezi)'' Platnick & García, 2008 — Colombia
* ''[Cryptocellus foedus](/source/Cryptocellus_foedus)'' Westwood, 1874 — Brazil
* ''[Cryptocellus gamboa](/source/Cryptocellus_gamboa)'' Platnick & Shadab, 1981 — Panama
* ''[Cryptocellus glenoides](/source/Cryptocellus_glenoides)'' Cooke & Shadab, 1973 — Colombia
* ''[Cryptocellus goodnighti](/source/Cryptocellus_goodnighti)'' Platnick & Shadab, 1981 — Costa Rica
* ''[Cryptocellus guaviarensis](/source/Cryptocellus_guaviarensis)'' Botero-Trujillo & Flórez D., 2018 — Colombia
* ''[Cryptocellus hanseni](/source/Cryptocellus_hanseni)'' Cooke & Shadab, 1973 — Honduras, Nicaragua
* ''[Cryptocellus iaci](/source/Cryptocellus_iaci)'' Tourinho, Man-Hung & Bonaldo, 2010 — Brazil
* ''[Cryptocellus icamiabas](/source/Cryptocellus_icamiabas)'' Tourinho & de Azevedo, 2007 — Brazil
* ''[Cryptocellus islacolon](/source/Cryptocellus_islacolon)'' Botero-Trujillo, Carvalho, Florez D. & Prendini, 2021 — Panama
* ''[Cryptocellus isthmius](/source/Cryptocellus_isthmius)'' Cooke & Shadab, 1973 — Panama
* ''[Cryptocellus jamari](/source/Cryptocellus_jamari)'' Botero-Trujillo, Carvalho, Florez D. & Prendini, 2021 — Brazil
* ''[Cryptocellus lampeli](/source/Cryptocellus_lampeli)'' Cooke, 1967 — Guyana
* ''[Cryptocellus leleupi](/source/Cryptocellus_leleupi)'' Cooreman, 1976 — Ecuador
* ''[Cryptocellus lisbethae](/source/Cryptocellus_lisbethae)'' González-Sponga, 1998 — Venezuela
* ''[Cryptocellus luisedieri](/source/Cryptocellus_luisedieri)'' Botero-Trujillo & Pérez, 2009 — Colombia
* ''[Cryptocellus macagual](/source/Cryptocellus_macagual)'' Botero-Trujillo, Carvalho, Florez D. & Prendini, 2021 — Colombia
* ''[Cryptocellus magnus](/source/Cryptocellus_magnus)'' Ewing, 1929 — Colombia
* ''[Cryptocellus muiraquitan](/source/Cryptocellus_muiraquitan)'' Tourinho, Lo-Man-Hung & Salvatierra, 2014 — Brazil
* ''[Cryptocellus narino](/source/Cryptocellus_narino)'' Platnick & Paz, 1979 — Colombia
* ''[Cryptocellus osa](/source/Cryptocellus_osa)'' Platnick & Shadab, 1981 — Costa Rica
* ''[Cryptocellus peckorum](/source/Cryptocellus_peckorum)'' Platnick & Shadab, 1977 — Colombia
* ''[Cryptocellus platnicki](/source/Cryptocellus_platnicki)'' Botero-Trujillo & Pérez, 2008 — Colombia
* ''[Cryptocellus pseudocellatus](/source/Cryptocellus_pseudocellatus)'' Roewer, 1952 — Peru
* ''[Cryptocellus simonis](/source/Cryptocellus_simonis)'' Hansen & Sørensen, 1904 — Brazil
* ''[Cryptocellus sofiae](/source/Cryptocellus_sofiae)'' Botero-Trujillo, 2014 — Colombia
* ''[Cryptocellus striatipes](/source/Cryptocellus_striatipes)'' Cooke & Shadab, 1973 — Costa Rica
* ''[Cryptocellus tarsilae](/source/Cryptocellus_tarsilae)'' Pinto-da-Rocha & Bonaldo, 2007 — Brazil
* ''[Cryptocellus verde](/source/Cryptocellus_verde)'' Platnick & Shadab, 1981 — Costa Rica
* ''[Cryptocellus whitticki](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Journal_of_Zoology) |volume=151 |issue=1 |pages=31–42 |doi=10.1111/j.1469-7998.1967.tb02864.x}}
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Category:Taxa named by John O. Westwood
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