Cormocephalus westwoodi westwoodi ( Newport, 1844 )

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 : 187-189

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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.

References

Attems, C. (1909) Myriopoda. In: Schulze L. (ed.) Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Sudafrika ausgefuhrt in den Jahren 1903 - 1905 mit Unterstutzung der Kgl. Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena, 14, 1 - 52.

Koch, L. E. (1983) Revision of the Australian centipedes of the genus Cormocephalus Newport (Chilopoda: Scolopendridae: Scolopendrinae). Australian Journal of Zoology, 31, 799 - 833.

Minelli, A., Bonato, L., Dioguardi, R., Chagas, J. A., Edgecombe, G. D., Lewis, J. G. E., Pereira, L. A., Shelley, R. M., Stoev, P., Uliana, M. & Zapparoli, M. (2006 and onwards). CHILOBASE. A web resource for Chilopoda taxonomy.

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.

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.