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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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.

References

Kraepelin, K. (1903) Revision der Scolopendriden. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen wissenschaftlichen Anstalten, 20 (2), 1 - 276.

Lawrence, R. F. (1955) Chilopoda. In: Hanstrom, B., Brink, P. & Rudebeck, G. (Eds.), South African Animal Life. Results of the Lund University Expedition in 1950 - 1951. Vol. II. Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm, 4 - 56.

Newport, G. (1844) [Conclusion of the monograph on the Myriapoda Chilopoda]. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, 1, 191 - 197. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1842. tb 00368. x

Porat, C. O. von (1871) Myriopoda Africae australis, in Museo Regio Holmiensi asservata, recensuit. Kongliga Vetenskaps- Akademien Forhandlingar, 9, 1135 - 1167

Schileyko, A. & Stagl, V. (2004) The collection of scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda) in the Natural History Museum in Vienna: a critical re-evaluation of former taxonomic identifications. Annalen des Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, 105, 67 - 137.

Vahtera, V., Edgecombe, G. D. & Giribet, G. (2013) Phylogentics of scolopendromorph centipedes: can denser taxon sampling improve an artificial classification? Invertebrate Systematics, 27, 578 - 602.