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
22.
Cormocephalus oligoporus
Kraepelin, 1903
Material examined.
Botswana
:
95 m
N.W. Serowe
, N.E
.
Bechuanaland
, open grass, No. 1,
14/1/1935
, leg.
Mrs Gerald Jenison
,
1 ex.
,
BMNH 1935.5
.9.21. (
Fig. 35
)
.
Type
locality.
Namibia
(Swakopmund) (
Minelli
et al
. 2006
)
.
General distribution.
South Tropical Africa:
Zimbabwe
(
ZW
); Southern Africa:
Botswana
(
BW
),
Namibia
(ZA),
South Africa
(
Cape
Provinces) (ZA) (
Lawrence 1955
: fig. 7B;
Schileyko and Stagl 2004
;
Minelli
et al
. 2006
).
Remarks.
The specimen from
Botswana
examined here possesses paramedian sutures on the posterior half of T1, noted as distinctive for this species by
Attems (1928b)
and
Schileyko and Stagl (2004)
. The coxopleural pore field has the narrow, oval shape depicted by
Kraepelin (1903
: fig. 135), terminating at the posterior margin of the sternite of the ultimate leg-bearing segment; the coxopleural process is narrow and conical, bearing two apical spines and a small lateral spine.