{{Short description|Family of centipedes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Cryptops_hortensis_Rombas_11.JPG | image_caption = ''[[Cryptops hortensis]]'' | taxon = Cryptopidae | authority = [[Ernst Kohlrausch|Kohlrausch]], 1881 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = {{center|''See text''}} }}
The '''Cryptopidae''' are a [[Family (taxonomy)|family]] of [[Scolopendromorpha#Scolopendromorpha|scolopendromorph]] [[centipedes]]. Cryptopids are blind (lacking [[ocelli]]) and possess 21 pairs of legs.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last1=Bonato |first1=Lucio |title=The Myriapoda. Volume 1 |last2=Edgecombe |first2=Gregory D. |last3=Zapparoli |first3=Marzio |publisher=Brill |year=2011 |isbn=978-90-04-18826-6 |editor-last=Minelli |editor-first=Alessandro |location=Leiden |pages=363–443 |chapter=Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview |oclc=812207443}}</ref> The genus ''[[Cryptops]]'' is the numerically largest in the family, comprising over 150 species worldwide.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Balan|first=Dhanya|author2=P.M. Sureshan|author3=Vinod Khanna|title=A new species of centipede of the genus Cryptops Leach (Scolopendromorpha: Cryptopidae) from southern Western Ghats with a key to the species of Cryptops in India|journal=Journal of Threatened Taxa|year=2012|volume=4|issue=4|pages=2510–2514|doi=10.11609/jott.o3035.2510-4|doi-access=free}}</ref>
== Classification == The following genera, may be included:<ref>[https://www.gbif.org/species/4085 GBIF]: Family Cryptopidae</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Chilobase: a web resource for Chilopoda taxonomy.|url=http://chilobase.bio.unipd.it/|access-date=14 October 2013|author1=Minelli, A.|author2=Bonato, L.|author3=Dioguardi, R.|display-authors=etal|archive-date=23 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110423203659/http://chilobase.bio.unipd.it/|url-status=dead}}</ref> # ''[[Cryptops]]'' <small>Leach, 1814</small> # ''[[Eremops]]'' <small>Bollman, 1893</small> # ''[[Mimops]]'' <small>Kraepelin, 1903</small> # ''[[Paracryptops]]'' <small>Pocock, 1891</small> # ''[[Tonkinodentus]]'' <small>Schileyko, 1992</small> # ''[[Trigonocryptops]]'' <small>Verhoeff, 1906</small>
The genera ''[[Plutonium (genus)|Plutonium]]'' and ''[[Theatops]]'' Newport, 1844, formerly classified in the cryptopid subfamily Plutoniuminae, are now placed in the recently elevated family [[Plutoniumidae]].<ref name ="Di et al 2010">{{cite journal | title=Discovery of the centipede family Plutoniumidae (Chilopoda) in Asia: A new species of Theatops from China, and the taxonomic value of spiracle distributions in Scolopendromorpha | year=2010 | last1=Di | first1=Zhiyong | last2=Cao | first2=Zhijian | last3=Wu | first3=Yingliang | last4=Yin | first4=Shijin | last5=Edgecombe | first5=Gregory D. | last6=Li | first6=Wenxin | journal=Zootaxa | volume=2667 | pages=51–63 | doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.2667.1.4 | url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236009688 | via=ResearchGate}}</ref>
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