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

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 ) .

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.

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.