Here we describe in detail the late post-embryonic development of the common European scolopendromorph centipede Cryptops parisi. Canonical variate analyses of two groups of external morphological characters, viz., cephalic capsule characters (head length, length of the anterior and posterior paramedian cephalic sutures) and coxopleuron surface characters (number of pores in the coxal pore-field, number of setae on the posterior coxopleuron edge, their number on the coxal pore-field, and their number posterior to the coxal pore-field) were conducted on a large sample of specimens collected from two localities in Serbia. Ten free-living stages are recognized: three pre-adult stages (adolescens I, II, and III) and seven adult stages (one maturus junior stage, four maturus, and two maturus senior stages). The fourth late post-embryonic stage is the first mature stage in both sexes. Sexual dimorphism in the aforementioned characters was not observed. Morphological variation of coxopleuron characters was more informative for the discrimination of developmental stages in Cryptops than the morphological variation of cephalic capsule characters.

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母亲的拥抱后的生活：隐孢子虫的胚胎后发育后期（Chilopoda：Scolopendromorpha：Cryptopidae）。

在这里，我们详细描述了常见的欧洲scolopendromorph centCryptops parisi的后期胚胎发育。两组外部形态学特征的典型变量分析，即头颅囊特征（头长，前，后副正中头颅缝线的长度）和尾op侧表面特征（在尾气孔中的孔数，刚毛上的刚毛数）在从塞尔维亚两个地方收集的大量标本上进行了尾部后侧边缘，其在尾部孔区域上的数量以及在尾部孔区域后的数量）。公认有十个自由生活阶段：三个成年前阶段（第一，第二和第三阶段）和七个成年阶段（一个初级阶段的成人，四个初级阶段和两个高级阶段）。胚胎后第四阶段是男女的第一个成熟阶段。未观察到上述字符中的性二态性。与头孢囊特征的形态学变异相比，头孢吡隆特征的形态学变异对于隐性虫的发育阶段的鉴别更具信息性。