Cormocephalus oligoporus Kraepelin, 1903

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

22. Cormocephalus oligoporus Kraepelin, 1903

Material examined. Botswana: 95 m N.W. Serowe, N.E . Bechuanaland, open grass, No. 1, 14/1/1935, leg. Mrs Gerald Jenison, 1 ex., BMNH 1935.5 .9.21. ( Fig. 35 ) .

Type locality. Namibia (Swakopmund) ( Minelli et al. 2006) .

General distribution. South Tropical Africa: Zimbabwe ( ZW); Southern Africa: Botswana ( BW), Namibia (ZA), South Africa (Cape Provinces) (ZA) ( Lawrence 1955: fig. 7B; Schileyko and Stagl 2004; Minelli et al. 2006).

Remarks. The specimen from Botswana examined here possesses paramedian sutures on the posterior half of T1, noted as distinctive for this species by Attems (1928b) and Schileyko and Stagl (2004). The coxopleural pore field has the narrow, oval shape depicted by Kraepelin (1903: fig. 135), terminating at the posterior margin of the sternite of the ultimate leg-bearing segment; the coxopleural process is narrow and conical, bearing two apical spines and a small lateral spine.

Figures

FIGURE 35. Cormocephalus multispinosus, C. nitidus nitidus, C. oligoporus and C. westwoodi westwoodi, distribution records of specimens from Africa housed in the NHM collection.