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Species Cryptops spinipes Pocock, 1891

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Species Cryptops spinipes Pocock, 1891

Cryptops spinipes Pocock, R.I. 1891. Descriptions of some new Geophilidae in the collections of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 8(45): 215-227 [156].
Cryptops setosus Pocock, R.I. 1891. Descriptions of some new Geophilidae in the collections of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 8(45): 215-227 [157].
Cryptops zealandicus Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [203].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

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drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

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IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: SE coastal
- Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal
Fiji
New Zealand
Solomon Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, predator, rotting wood, soil dweller, solitary, terrestrial, under bark.

General References

Archey, G. 1921. Notes on New Zealand Chilopoda. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 53: 181-195 [184] (Cryptops zealandicus; Cryptops spinipes; New Zealand distribution; gives a translation of Kraepelin's 1903 description)

Archey, G. 1924. The genus Cryptops (Chilopoda) in New Zealand. Records of the Canterbury Museum 2(4): 203-219 [211, 212, pl. 34, figs 1-3] (Cryptops spinipes; New Zealand distribution)

Archey, G. 1936. Revision of the Chilopoda of New Zealand. Part 1. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 2(1): 43-70 [68] (Cryptops spinipes)

Kraepelin, K. 1903. Revision der Scolopendriden. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 20: 1-276 [49] (Cryptops spinipes)

Kraepelin, K. 1916. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expedition to Australia 1910–1913. 4. Scolopendriden und Skorpione. Arkiv för Zoologi 10(2): 1-43 [2] (Cryptops spinipes; distribution in Queensland)

Pocock, R.I. 1901. The Chilopoda or centipedes of the Australian continent. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7(8): 451-463 [460] (Cryptops spinipes)

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)