C. gr. laccophila sensu Moller Pillot, 1984b
Body
Medium sized larvae up to 7 mm long. Living larvae red. Claws on the posterior parapods are simpel. No lateral and ventral tubules. (Wiederholm, 1983; Moller Pillot, 1984a).
Head
Antenna
The antenna consists of 5 segments. The blade is shorter than the flagellum. Lauterborn organs apparently absent.
Mentum
The mentum has two median tooth and 6 pairs of lateral teeth. A large gap between the 3d and 4th lateral teeth, the 5th lateral tooth strongly enlarged Cladop laccophila mentum. The ventromental plates are about 3/4 as wide as the mentum.
Labrum
SI is simpel and labral lamellae are absent. The pecten epipharyngis is a single plate. The premandible is bifid.
Mandible
The mandible without a dorsal tooth. The apical tooth with 2-3 indistinct inner teeth Cladop mandible no dorsal toot. The pecten mandibularis is absent and seta interna with 4 plumose branches Cladop mandible with SI arrow 8.
Differential characteristics
The shape of the mentum with a stronger outer tooth and paired median tooth is distinctive Cladop lateralis mentum. The combination of a paired median mental tooth, 6 pairs of lateral teeth and a mandible without dorsal tooth, 2 inner teeth Cladop mandible no dorsal toot and no Lauterborn organs separates Cladopelma from all other genera.
C. gr. viridula can be separated from the other group (C. gr. lateralis) by the shape of the mentum with a gap between the 3d and 4th lateral teeth Cladop laccophila mentum.