Cormocephalus multispinosus Attems, 1909

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 : 187

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3734.2.5

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5271319

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scientific name

Cormocephalus multispinosus Attems, 1909
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20. Cormocephalus multispinosus Attems, 1909 View in CoL

( Figs 31–34 View FIGURES 31–34 )

Cormocephalus spinulosus Attems, 1928a View in CoL (for further synonyms see Minelli et al. 2006).

Material examined. Lesotho (Basutoland): Marena , leg. Dr. MacLean & L. Wroughton, 1 ex., BMNH 07.10.8.16- 17 ; Namibia: Hoffnung E. of Windhoek , 1.850 m, 25/12/1933, leg. Dr. K. Jordan, 1 ex., BMNH 1934.4.25.116 ; Namibia: Hoffnung E. of Windhoek , 1.850 m, 30/12/1933, leg. Dr. K. Jordan, 1 ex., BMNH 1934.6.5.25-30 ; Namibia: Hoffnung E. of Windhoek , 1.850 m, 4/2/1934, leg. Dr. K. Jordan, 1 ex., BMNH 1934.12.4.257 ; Namibia: Büllsport , 1.450 m, 6/12/1933, leg. Dr. K. Jordan, 1 ex., BMNH 1934.4 .25.115. ( Fig. 35 View FIGURE 35 ) .

Type locality. South Africa (Northern Cape Province, Kamaggas, Little Namaqualand ) ( Minelli et al. 2006) .

General distribution. South Tropical Africa: Angola (AO); Southern Africa: Botswana ( BW), Lesotho ( LS) (new region record), Namibia (ZA), South Africa (Northern Cape Province, Gauteng Province, Western Cape Province) (ZA) ( Schileyko and Stagl 2004; Minelli et al. 2006).

Remarks. Synonymy of Cormocephalus spinulosus Attems, 1928a , with C. multispinosus was proposed by Schileyko and Stagl (2004) and is accepted herein. The assigned specimen from Lesotho ( Figs. 31, 32 View FIGURES 31–34 ) conforms to the examined material from Namibia ( Figs. 33, 34 View FIGURES 31–34 ) with respect to prefemoral proportions and spine arrangements.

LS

Linnean Society of London

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Chilopoda

Order

Scolopendromorpha

Family

Scolopendridae

Genus

Cormocephalus

Loc

Cormocephalus multispinosus Attems, 1909

Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail & Edgecombe, Gregory D. 2013
2013
Loc

Cormocephalus spinulosus

Attems 1928
1928
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