''Cryptocellus'' is an arachnid genus in the order

Ricinulei Ricinulei is a small order of arachnids. Like most arachnids, they are predatory, eating small arthropods. They occur today in west-central Africa (''Ricinoides'') and the Neotropics (''Cryptocellus'' and ''Pseudocellus'') as far north as Texas. ...

, first described by John Westwood in 1874. It is native to the

Neotropics The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In bioge ...

Species

it contains forty-five species: * '' Cryptocellus abaporu'' Bonaldo & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2003 — Brazil * '' Cryptocellus adisi'' Platnick, 1988 — Brazil * '' Cryptocellus albosquamatus'' Cooke, 1967 — Guyana * '' Cryptocellus becki'' Platnick & Shadab, 1977 — Brazil * '' Cryptocellus bocas'' Platnick & Shadab, 1981 — Panama * '' Cryptocellus bordoni'' (Dumitresco & Juvara-balş, 1977) — Venezuela * '' Cryptocellus brignolii'' Cokendolpher, 2000 — Suriname * '' Cryptocellus canga'' Pinto-da-Rocha & Andrade, 2012 — Brazil * '' Cryptocellus canutama'' Botero-Trujillo, Carvalho, Florez D. & Prendini, 2021 — Brazil * '' Cryptocellus centralis'' Fage, 1921 — Costa Rica * '' Cryptocellus chimaera'' Botero-Trujillo & Valdez-Mondragón, 2016 — Ecuador * '' Cryptocellus chiriqui'' Platnick & Shadab, 1981 — Costa Rica, Panama * '' Cryptocellus chiruisla'' Botero-Trujillo & Flórez D., 2017 — Ecuador * '' Cryptocellus conori'' Tourinho & Saturnino, 2010 — Brazil * '' Cryptocellus fagei'' Cooke & Shadab, 1973 — Costa Rica * '' Cryptocellus florezi'' Platnick & García, 2008 — Colombia * '' Cryptocellus foedus'' Westwood, 1874 — Brazil * '' Cryptocellus gamboa'' Platnick & Shadab, 1981 — Panama * '' Cryptocellus glenoides'' Cooke & Shadab, 1973 — Colombia * ''

Cryptocellus goodnighti ''Cryptocellus goodnighti'' is an arachnid species in the genus ''Cryptocellus ''Cryptocellus'' is an arachnid genus in the order Ricinulei, first described by John Westwood in 1874. It is native to the Neotropics The Neotropical realm ...

'' Platnick & Shadab, 1981 — Costa Rica * '' Cryptocellus guaviarensis'' Botero-Trujillo & Flórez D., 2018 — Colombia * '' Cryptocellus hanseni'' Cooke & Shadab, 1973 — Honduras, Nicaragua * '' Cryptocellus iaci'' Tourinho, Man-Hung & Bonaldo, 2010 — Brazil * '' Cryptocellus icamiabas'' Tourinho & de Azevedo, 2007 — Brazil * '' Cryptocellus islacolon'' Botero-Trujillo, Carvalho, Florez D. & Prendini, 2021 — Panama * '' Cryptocellus isthmius'' Cooke & Shadab, 1973 — Panama * '' Cryptocellus jamari'' Botero-Trujillo, Carvalho, Florez D. & Prendini, 2021 — Brazil * '' Cryptocellus lampeli'' Cooke, 1967 — Guyana * '' Cryptocellus leleupi'' Cooreman, 1976 — Ecuador * '' Cryptocellus lisbethae'' González-Sponga, 1998 — Venezuela * '' Cryptocellus luisedieri'' Botero-Trujillo & Pérez, 2009 — Colombia * '' Cryptocellus macagual'' Botero-Trujillo, Carvalho, Florez D. & Prendini, 2021 — Colombia * '' Cryptocellus magnus'' Ewing, 1929 — Colombia * '' Cryptocellus muiraquitan'' Tourinho, Lo-Man-Hung & Salvatierra, 2014 — Brazil * '' Cryptocellus narino'' Platnick & Paz, 1979 — Colombia * '' Cryptocellus osa'' Platnick & Shadab, 1981 — Costa Rica * '' Cryptocellus peckorum'' Platnick & Shadab, 1977 — Colombia * '' Cryptocellus platnicki'' Botero-Trujillo & Pérez, 2008 — Colombia * '' Cryptocellus pseudocellatus'' Roewer, 1952 — Peru * '' Cryptocellus simonis'' Hansen & Sørensen, 1904 — Brazil * '' Cryptocellus sofiae'' Botero-Trujillo, 2014 — Colombia * '' Cryptocellus striatipes'' Cooke & Shadab, 1973 — Costa Rica * '' Cryptocellus tarsilae'' Pinto-da-Rocha & Bonaldo, 2007 — Brazil * '' Cryptocellus verde'' Platnick & Shadab, 1981 — Costa Rica * '' Cryptocellus whitticki'' Platnick & Shadab, 1977 — Guyana

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* {{Taxonbar, from=Q10462222 Arachnid genera Ricinulei Arthropods of Central America Taxa named by John O. Westwood