Cormocephalus westwoodi westwoodi ( Newport, 1844 )
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3734.2.5 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:36ED88E6-2CEB-4071-8429-A39901B8B9BF |
DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5271329 |
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B68458-FFA2-FFE3-FF56-AD40FEC7F8C9 |
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Felipe |
scientific name |
Cormocephalus westwoodi westwoodi ( Newport, 1844 ) |
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23. Cormocephalus westwoodi westwoodi ( Newport, 1844) View in CoL
Material examined. Zanzibar Isl.: Mkoani , Pemba Isl., 21/5/1939, leg. R. H.W. Pakenham, 1 ex., BMNH 1950.3 .7.71. ( Fig. 35 View FIGURE 35 ) .
Type locality. Australia ( Gayndah , Queensland) ( Schileyko and Stagl 2004) .
General distribution. South Tropical Africa: Zambia (ZM), Zimbabwe ( ZW); Southern Africa: Botswana ( BW), South Africa (ZA); Asia Tropical: Sri Lanka (SL); Indian Ocean Islands: Comoro Islands ( KM), Madagascar ( MG), Réunion, Seychelles (SC); Australasia: Australia (AU), New Zealand ( NZ); Pacific Islands: Papua New Guinea ( NG), Loyalty Islands (distribution of C. westwoodi westwoodi in Schileyko and Stagl 2004; Minelli et al. 2006).
Remarks. A specimen from Pemba Island, Zanzibar, corresponds to C. westwoodi westwoodi sensu Schileyko and Stagl (2004) , who also assigned a specimen from that island to this subspecies. The latter specimen had been determined by Attems as C. dispar Porat, 1871 , a species placed in synonymy with C. westwoodi by Koch (1983) and followed by Schileyko and Stagl (2004). Among characters known to vary within C. westwoodi westwoodi , the NHM specimen has the following combination: margination from T5; tergite of ultimate leg-bearing segment with median suture incomplete posteriorly; sternite of ultimate leg-bearing segment with concave posterior margin; coxopleural process bearing two apical spines and a lateral spine; ultimate leg prefemur with 2+2 VL spines; two curved spines on distomedial prefemoral process; ultimate leg pretarsus as long as tarsus 2, and small pretarsal accessory claws.
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Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile |
KM |
Kotel'nich Museum |
MG |
Museum of Zoology |
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