ChiloBase 2.0

Recommended citation:
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).
Available at https://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it.

The valid name for Cormocephalus elegans Kraepelin, 1903 is Cormocephalus westwoodi (Newport, 1844)

Cormocephalus elegans Kraepelin, 1903

Original description: Kraepelin K. (1903). Revision der Scolopendriden - Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten , (2)20: 1-276, see p. 206.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Scolopendridae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Cormocephalus Newport, 1844

Type locality: South Africa, Mpumalanga, Lydenburg Mission, station Mphome

Synonymy: Koch L.E. (1983). Revision of the Australian centipedes of the genus Cormocephalus Newport (Chilopoda: Scolopendridae: Scolopendrinae) - Australian Journal of Zoology , 31: 799-833, see p. 828.