Greater cryptops
The greater cryptops is a fast, many-legged centipede from Europe. It can grow up to 5 centimetres long, which makes it one of the biggest in its group. It looks a lot like two of its cousins, so you need a magnifying glass to tell them apart.
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It is one of the largest centipedes in its group, the cryptops.
Experts tell it apart from its cousins by a seam shaped like the letter X on the first plate of its back.
It lives in many countries across Europe and also in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
It has even been found in parts of Canada, far away from its home in Europe.
Most asked questions about Greater cryptops
?How big is the greater cryptops?
It can grow up to about 5 centimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cryptops anomalans
- Group
- Centipedes and millipedes
- Family
- Cryptopidae
- Classification
- Chilopoda > Scolopendromorpha > Cryptopidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, North America
- Also known as
- Anomalous cryptops
Where the facts come from
- Cryptops anomalans (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Stephen James McWilliam. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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