Cryptopidae

The Cryptopidae are a family of scolopendromorph centipedes. Cryptopids are blind (lacking ocelli) and possess 21 pairs of legs.^[1] The genus Cryptops is the numerically largest in the family, comprising over 150 species worldwide.^[2]

Cryptopidae
Cryptops hortensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Chilopoda
Order:	Scolopendromorpha
Family:	Cryptopidae Kohlrausch, 1881
Genera
See text

Classification

The following genera, may be included:^[3][4]

1. Cryptops Leach, 1814
2. Eremops Bollman, 1893
3. Mimops Kraepelin, 1903
4. Paracryptops Pocock, 1891
5. Tonkinodentus Schileyko, 1992
6. Trigonocryptops Verhoeff, 1906

The genera Plutonium and Theatops Newport, 1844, formerly classified in the cryptopid subfamily Plutoniuminae, are now placed in the recently elevated family Plutoniumidae.^[5]