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) Author Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail Natural History Museum of Crete, University of Crete, Knossos Av., Herakleion 71409, Crete, Greece. ssimaiakis@yahoo.com Author Edgecombe, Gregory D. Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom. text Zootaxa 2013 2013-11-05 3734 2 169 198 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3734.2.5 1175-5326 5275595 36ED88E6-2CEB-4071-8429-A39901B8B9BF 23. Cormocephalus westwoodi westwoodi ( Newport, 1844 ) Material examined. Zanzibar Isl.: Mkoani , Pemba Isl., 21/5/1939 , leg. R . H.W. Pakenham , 1 ex. , BMNH 1950.3 .7.71. ( Fig. 35 ) . FIGURES 31–34. Cormocephalus multispinosus Attems, 1909 . Figs 31, 32. BMNH 07.10.8.16-17 (Lesotho): Figure 31, tergite of ultimate leg-bearing segment and ultimate leg prefemora, dorsal view, scale bar 0.5 mm; Figure 32, ultimate legbearing segment and ultimate leg prefemora, ventral view, scale bar 0.5 mm. Figs 33, 34. BMNH 1934.6.5.25-30 (Namibia): Figure 33, tergite of ultimate leg-bearing segment and ultimate leg prefemora, dorsal view, scale bar 0.5 mm; Figure 34, ultimate leg-bearing segment and ultimate leg prefemora, ventral view, scale bar 0.5 mm. FIGURE 35. Cormocephalus multispinosus , C. nitidus nitidus , C. oligoporus and C. westwoodi westwoodi , distribution records of specimens from Africa housed in the NHM collection. 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.