Cryptops nanus is a species of centipede in the Cryptopidae family. It was described in 1938 by Austrian myriapodologist Carl Attems.[1][2]

Cryptops nanus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Chilopoda
Order: Scolopendromorpha
Family: Cryptopidae
Genus: Cryptops
Species:
C. nanus
Binomial name
Cryptops nanus
Attems, 1938[1]

Distribution

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The species occurs in the Hawaiian Islands. The type locality is Honolulu.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b Attems, C (1938). "Myriopoden von Hawaii". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 108B: 365–387 [374].
  2. ^ 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 13 April 2023.