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Bonato L., Chagas Junior A.,
Edgecombe G.D. Lewis J.G.E.,
Minelli A., Pereira L.A.,
Shelley R.M., Stoev P.,
Zapparoli M. (2016)
ChiloBase 2.0 - A World Catalogue
of Centipedes (Chilopoda).
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The valid name for Cormocephalus crudelis Saussure & Zehntner, 1902 is Cormocephalus westwoodi (Newport, 1844)

Cormocephalus crudelis Saussure & Zehntner, 1902

Original description: Saussure H. de, Zehnter L. (1902). Histoire naturelle des myriapodes. In: Grandidier A. (ed.), Histoire physique naturelle et politique de Madagascar - Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris, 27 (53): VIII+356, see p. 312.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Scolopendridae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Cormocephalus Newport, 1844

Type locality: Madagascar

Synonymy: Kraepelin K. (1903). Revision der Scolopendriden - Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten , (2)20: 1-276, see p. 202.

Notes: Kraepelin (1903: 202) gave C. crudelis as a junior synonym of C. dispar Porat, 1871. Subsequently L. E. Koch (1983: 828) synonymised C. dispar under C. westwoodi but overlooked crudelis in his synonymy.