Lycophidion multimaculatum Boettger, 1888

Santos, Bruna S., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2021, Herpetological results of Francisco Newton’s Zoological Expedition to Angola (1903 – 1906): a taxonomic revision and new records of a forgotten collection, Zootaxa 5028 (1), pp. 1-80 : 31

Lycophidion multimaculatum Boettger, 1888

Material (two specimens): One adult specimen (MHNCUP/REP 169, formerly UP-MHNFCP-017395), collected from Chingo [-11.20000º, 13.85000º, 11 m a.s.l.] Kwanza Sul Province, by Francisco Newton on unknown date; one adult specimen (MHNCUP/REP 326, formerly UP-MHNFCP-017396; Fig. S64 ), collected from unknown locality, by Francisco Newton in 1903.

Comments: Lycophidion multimaculatum has a distribution ranging from Central African Republic to Tanzania and Angola ( Chippaux & Jackson 2019). According to Marques et al. (2018), this species possibly exists throughout Angola, including the Cabinda enclave, with the exception of the southwestern desert regions. Ferreira (1904) published records of two adults of “ Lycophidium capense ” with no locality information, commenting that one had “very light color” (likely to match MHNCUP/REP 169) and the other was “almost totally black”; later he also published an adult from “Golungo Alto” ( Ferreira 1906). Marques et al. (2018) stated that the majority of records attributed to Lycophidion capense Smith, 1831 from Angola are in fact L. multimaculatum , including the Newton Expedition specimens. Boettger (1888) first described the species as Lycophidium Capense multimaculata, but Broadley (1992) referred to it as a full species.

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FIGURE S64. Specimen of Lycophidion multimaculatum (MHNCUP/REP 326), from unknown locality. Photo by Bruna Santos.