Panaspis cabindae (Bocage, 1866)

Marques, Mariana P., Parrinha, Diogo, Lopes-Lima, Manuel, Tiutenko, Arthur, Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2024, An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola, ZooKeys 1201, pp. 167-217 : 167-217

Panaspis cabindae (Bocage, 1866)

Records.

Mamué riparian area [- 13. 8015, 13.1206, 665 m] ( CAS 263550, 263553 – 263555; UF 187242; INBAC / AMB 10317, 10320).

Comments.

The distribution area of this species extends from central Africa to the central highlands in Angola, reaching its southern limit in the forest margins below the Escarpment in southeastern Namibe Province ( Ceríaco et al. 2020 b). The species appears to be absent from more xeric and desertic areas of the southwestern regions of Namibe Province, where it is replaced by its congener Panaspis mocamedensis . In Serra da Neve, the species was found under leaf-litter, in dense Miombo woodlands. In Serra da Neve the species occurs in more humid lowlands, tendentially preferring more forested areas with deeper leaf litter.