Panaspis maculicollis Jacobsen and Broadley, 2000

Conradie, Werner, Bills, Roger & Branch, William R., 2016, The herpetofauna of the Cubango, Cuito, and lower Cuando river catchments of south-eastern Angola, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 126) 10 (2), pp. 6-36 : 25

Panaspis maculicollis Jacobsen and Broadley, 2000 .

Speckle-lipped Snake-eyed Skink

Material: PEM R 20007 (43).

Comment: Only a few records of Panaspis exist for Angola ( P. breviceps – Parker 1936; P. cabindae – Parker 1936; Bocage 1895; Ferreira 1906). A recent phylogeny of snake-eyed skinks ( Medina et al. 2016) placed Afroablepharus in the synonymy of Panaspis and showed deep divergences for the basal taxa P. breviceps and P. togoensis . The P. wahlbergi-maculicollis complex was also shown to contain numerous cryptic taxa. When describing P. maculicollis Jacobsen and Broadley (2000) recorded no specimens for Angola, and the Cuando specimen of confirmed genetic mono- phyly, represents the first for the country.