Cormocephalus anceps ( Porat, 1871 )

Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail & Edgecombe, Gregory D., 2013, Scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) in the Natural History Museum (London): A review of the hitherto unidentified species collected in Africa, with remarks on taxonomy and distribution, and a new species of Otostigmus (Parotostigmus), Zootaxa 3734 (2), pp. 169-198 : 185

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Cormocephalus anceps ( Porat, 1871 )
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18. Cormocephalus anceps ( Porat, 1871)

Material examined. South Africa: Bare Town , leg. P.I. Felater, 2 exx., BMNH 01.3.10.26; South Africa: Simons Town , 15/5/1894, leg. Capt. H.W. Whyte, 1 ex., BMNH 1919.12.4.3; South Africa: Somerset East , leg. Leppan, 1 ex., BMNH 03.6.25.192; Swaziland: Umbuluzi , found in dung, 3/9/1965, leg. R . C.H. Sweeny, 1 ex., BMNH ?. ( Fig. 30 View FIGURE 30 ).

Type locality. South Africa (Kapland) ( Porat 1871) .

General distribution. Southern Africa: South Africa (ZA), Swaziland (SZ) (new region record) ( Lawrence 1955; Schileyko and Stagl 2004).

Remarks. Cormocephalus anceps was recognised as a species until it was transferred to C. westwoodi as a subspecies by Schileyko and Stagl (2004). Molecular phylogenetic studies Vahtera et al. (2013) indicate that C. anceps is not most closely related to other putative subspecies of C. westwoodi , i.e., C. westwoodi westwoodi ( Newport, 1844) and C. w. elegans Kraepelin, 1903. Rather than recognizing a polyphyletic species, we return C. w. anceps to species rank.

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