Platyceps florulentus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827)

Bauer, Aaron M., DeBoer, Jonathan C. & Taylor, Dylan J., 2017, Atlas of the Reptiles of Libya, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 64 (8), pp. 155-318 : 269

Platyceps florulentus ( Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827:151, pl. 8, figs. 2, 2')

Le Berre (1989) indicated a more or less continuous distribution of this species across coastal Libya, but was, in fact, referring to the species today known as Hemorrhois algirus . At least some other references to P. florulentus from Cyrenaica may refer to P. rogersi ( Anderson, 1893) , which itself has a complex taxonomic history that is intertwined with several other species, including P. florulentus (see P. rogersi species account). No Platyceps species are known to occur in Tripolitania. Platyceps florulentus is primarily East African in distribution and extends northwards to the Nile Delta region ( Schätti, 1988), with a disjunct subspecies, P. f. perreti Schätti, 1988 from Nigeria and Cameroon (Sindaco et al. 2013).