[6] The genus Krateraspis was first proposed by Nikolai G. Lignau in 1929 to contain the species originally described by the Russian myriapodologist Alexey V. Sseliwanoff in 1881 under the name Mecistocephalus meinerti.

[7] Sseliwanoff based the original description of this species on a female holotype found in Chinoz, in the Tashkent region of Uzbekistan.

[3] In 1975, the Russian myriapodologist Lidia P. Titova of the USSR Academy of Sciences described the second species in this genus, Krateraspis sselivanovi.

[3] A phylogenetic analysis of the family Mecistocephalidae using morphological features places this genus in the subfamily Mecistocephalinae along with the genera Mecistocephalus, Tygarrup, and Takashimaia.

This analysis also places the two species in Krateraspis in their own clade with a sister group formed by the genera Mecistocephalus and Takashimaia together on another branch of a phlyogenetic tree.

Thus, this evidence suggests that K. sselivanovi arrived at 53 leg pairs through a evolutionary process that added eight leg-bearing segments.