A. pondolia (Hewitt, 1925)

(Fig. 3 E)

Distribution. Low to middle elevations of the eastern Eastern Cape Province and southern and central KwaZulu- Natal (Bauer 2014i) (Fig. 4).

Remarks. Afroedura pondolia was long considered polytypic. Onderstall (1984) recognized five nonnominotypic subspecies, all of which are here considered valid species: A. marleyi, A. major, A. multiporis, A. haackei, and A. langi, and this interpretation was long accepted by most authors (e.g., Branch et al. 1988; Kluge 1991, 1993, 2001). All of the new species described herein would also have been placed in A. pondolia under Onderstall’s concept of the species. To avoid confusion with the A. pondolia group of earlier authors, we have here used the term A. nivaria group for the clade to which A. pondolia belongs.