Doménech C. 2026. On the actual subgeneric identity of the elusive Iberian endemic species Cryptops (Trigonocryptops) similis Machado, 1953 (Scolopendromorpha: Cryptopidae) // Arthropoda Selecta. Vol.35. No.1: 11–15 [in English].
Departament de Ciències Ambientals i Recursos Naturals, Universitat d’Alacant. Carretera de Sant Vicent del Raspeig s/n C.P. 03690, San Vicent del Raspeig, Alacant, Spain.
Carles Doménech — carles.domenech.perez@gmail.com; https://orcid. org/0000-0003-1890-9434
doi: 10.15298/arthsel.35.1.02
ABSTRACT. The incomplete description of certain significant taxonomic features involving Cryptops (Trigonocryptops) similis Machado, 1953 has recently raised reasonable doubts regarding the subgeneric status of this elusive Iberian endemic. Based on a single specimen from Málaga Province, the subgeneric diagnostic characteristics of C. similis have been reevaluated and found to align well with the recently renewed diagnostic criteria of the Trigonocryptops Verhoeff, 1906 subgenus. Moreover, the present study provides the fifth record of this taxon, exposes its easternmost known locality, and includes the first photographs of the species.
KEY WORDS: Cryptops, Trigonocryptops, similis, Iberian Peninsula, Scolopendromorpha, endemic.