Cryptops neocaledonicus

Cryptops neocaledonicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Chilopoda
Order:	Scolopendromorpha
Family:	Cryptopidae
Genus:	Cryptops
Species:	C. neocaledonicus
Binomial name
	Cryptops neocaledonicus; Ribaut, 1923

Cryptops neocaledonicus is a species of centipede in the Cryptopidae family. It was first described in 1923 by French entomologist Henri Ribaut.^[1]^[2]

Distribution

The species occurs on the main island of New Caledonia, Grande Terre; the type locality is Mont Panié. It has also been recorded from Guadeloupe and the United States Virgin Islands in the Caribbean, as well as from Peru and Namibia.^[2]

^ ^a ^b Ribaut, H (1923). "Chilopodes de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des Îles Loyalty". In Sarasin, F; Roux, J (eds.). Nova Caledonia, Recherches Scientifiques en Nouvelle-Calédonie et aux Îles Loyalty. Vol. 3. Berlin, Weisbaden: C.W. Kreidel's Verlag. pp. 1–79 [33].
^ ^a ^b Bonato L.; Chagas Junior A.; Edgecombe G.D.; Lewis J.G.E.; Minelli A.; Pereira L.A.; Shelley R.M.; Stoev P.; Zapparoli M. (2016). "ChiloBase 2.0". A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda). Rosario Dioguardi and Giuseppe Cortese, University of Padua. Retrieved 27 March 2023.

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