Cormocephalus elegans Kraepelin, 1903

Thofern, Detlef, Dupérré, Nadine & Harms, Danilo, 2021, An annotated type catalogue of the centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg, Zootaxa 4977 (1), pp. 1-103 : 52

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75. Cormocephalus elegans Kraepelin View in CoL , 1903

Kraepelin 1903: 206–207 (as Cormocephalus elegans n. sp.)

Type locality and specimens. Transvaal (Lydenburg, Missionsstation Mphome).

Dimensions. Länge bis [length up to] 85 mm.

Type material. Syntypes 3. SOUTH AFRICA: Mpumalanga Province: ( ZMH-A0000589 , ZMH-A0009267 ), Lydenburg (today Mashishing) [ca. 25°05’S, 30°26’E]; GoogleMaps ( ZMH-A0009268 ), Haenertsburg (Mphone Missionary Sta- tion) [ca. 23°56’S, 29°57’E] GoogleMaps .

Preservation. 2 jars. Jar 1 ( ZMH-A 0000589, ZMH-A 0009267): Label. Cormoceph. elegans Krpln ex Typis Lydenburg Transvaal Mus. Berlin C. 25. V.03. (Kraepelin handwriting). Jar 2 ( ZMH-A 0009268): Label. Cormo. elegans Krpln Mphome […] Transvaal. Mus. Berlin 25. V.03. (Kraepelin handwriting).

Old type catalogues. Weidner (1960), p. 65, No. 16. Paratypes 3.

Type status. Weidner (1960: 65) listed 2 paratypes from Lydenburg and 1 paratype from the “ Missionsstation Mphome ”. All specimens are syntypes.

Additional material. There are syntypes from Transvaal at the ZMB (no. 3472, 3481–82, 3647) .

Collection remarks. The Mission Station Mphone, based in the South African town of Haenertsburg (near Lydenburg), was established by the Berliner Missionsgesellschaft. The specimens originate from the ZMB collections.

Taxonomic remarks. Lawrence (1955: 159) synonymized this species as a subspecies of C. westwoodi ( C. westwoodi elegans ) which was synonymized with C. westwoodi by Koch (1983: 828).

Current systematic position. Junior synonym of Cormocephalus westwoodi (Newport, 1844) according to Lawrence (1955).