Cormocephalus multispinosus Attems 1909
- 1. Natural History Museum of Crete, University of Crete, Knossos Av., Herakleion 71409, Crete, Greece.
- 2. Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom.
Description
20. Cormocephalus multispinosus Attems, 1909
(Figs 31–34)
Cormocephalus spinulosus Attems, 1928a (for further synonyms see Minelli et al. 2006).
Material examined. Lesotho (Basutoland): Marena, leg. Dr. MacLean & L. Wroughton, 1 ex., BMNH 07.10.8.16- 17; Namibia: Hoffnung E. of Windhoek, 1.850 m, 25/12/1933, leg. Dr. K. Jordan, 1 ex., BMNH 1934.4.25.116; Namibia: Hoffnung E. of Windhoek, 1.850 m, 30/12/1933, leg. Dr. K. Jordan, 1 ex., BMNH 1934.6.5.25-30; Namibia: Hoffnung E. of Windhoek, 1.850 m, 4/2/1934, leg. Dr. K. Jordan, 1 ex., BMNH 1934.12.4.257; Namibia: Büllsport, 1.450 m, 6/12/1933, leg. Dr. K. Jordan, 1 ex., BMNH 1934.4.25.115. (Fig. 35).
Type locality. South Africa (Northern Cape Province, Kamaggas, Little Namaqualand) (Minelli et al. 2006).
General distribution. South Tropical Africa: Angola (AO); Southern Africa: Botswana (BW), Lesotho (LS) (new region record), Namibia (ZA), South Africa (Northern Cape Province, Gauteng Province, Western Cape Province) (ZA) (Schileyko and Stagl 2004; Minelli et al. 2006).
Remarks. Synonymy of Cormocephalus spinulosus Attems, 1928a, with C. multispinosus was proposed by Schileyko and Stagl (2004) and is accepted herein. The assigned specimen from Lesotho (Figs. 31, 32) conforms to the examined material from Namibia (Figs. 33, 34) with respect to prefemoral proportions and spine arrangements.
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- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.3734.2.5 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH
- Event date
- 1933-12-06 , 1933-12-25 , 1933-12-30 , 1934-02-04
- Family
- Scolopendridae
- Genus
- Cormocephalus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- BMNH 1934.4
- Order
- Scolopendromorpha
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Attems
- Species
- multispinosus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1933-12-06 , 1933-12-25 , 1933-12-30 , 1934-02-04
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cormocephalus multispinosus Attems, 1909 sec. Simaiakis & Edgecombe, 2013
References
- Attems, C. (1909) Myriopoda. In: Schulze L. (ed.) Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Sudafrika ausgefuhrt in den Jahren 1903 - 1905 mit Unterstutzung der Kgl. Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena, 14, 1 - 52.
- Attems, C. (1928 a) Neue Scolopendriden der Museen Wien und Hamburg. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 78, 279 - 307.
- Minelli, A., Bonato, L., Dioguardi, R., Chagas, J. A., Edgecombe, G. D., Lewis, J. G. E., Pereira, L. A., Shelley, R. M., Stoev, P., Uliana, M. & Zapparoli, M. (2006 and onwards). CHILOBASE. A web resource for Chilopoda taxonomy.
- Schileyko, A. & Stagl, V. (2004) The collection of scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda) in the Natural History Museum in Vienna: a critical re-evaluation of former taxonomic identifications. Annalen des Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, 105, 67 - 137.