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Higher TaxaAtractaspididae (Aparallactinae), Colubroidea, Caenophidia, Alethinophidia, Serpentes, Squamata (snakes)
SubspeciesAparallactus lunulatus lunulatus (PETERS 1854)
Aparallactus lunulatus nigrocollaris CHABANAUD 1916 
Common NamesE: Plumbeous or Reticulated Centipede Eater 
SynonymUriechis lunulatus PETERS 1854: 623
Uriechis concolor FISCHER 1884: 4
Uriechis lunulatus — GÜNTHER 1888: 324
Uriechis concolor — GÜNTHER 1888: 325
Aparallactus lunulatus — BOULENGER 1895: 172
Aparallactus concolor — BOULENGER 1895: 172
Aparallactus lunulatus — STERNFELD 1917
Aparallactus concolor boulengeri SCORTECCI 1931
Aparallactus concolor — PARKER 1936: 608
Aparallactus lunulatus — DE WITTE & LAURENT 1947: 110
Aparallactus lunulatus scorteccii PARKER 1949: 82 (nom. nov. pro A. concolor boulengeri)
Aparallactus lunulatus lunulatus — BROADLEY 1959
Aparallactus lunulatus — LOVERIDGE 1955
Aparallactus lunulatus — GANS et al. 1965: 66
Aparallactus lunulatus scorteccii — WELCH 1982: 139
Aparallactus lunulatus lunulatus — AUERBACH 1987: 171
Aparallactus lunulatus — BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991: 28
Aparallactus lunulatus lunulatus — BOYCOTT 1992
Aparallactus lunulatus — WELCH 1994: 17
Aparallactus lunulatus — CHIRIO & INEICH 2006
Aparallactus lunulatus — WALLACH et al. 2014: 47
Aparallactus lunulatus — SPAWLS et al. 2018: 454
Aparallactus lunulatus — PIETERSEN et al. 2021
Aparallactus lunulatus lunulatus — STANDER 2023: 257

Aparallactus lunulatus nigrocollaris CHABANAUD 1916
Aparallactus nigrocollaris CHABANAUD 1916: 377
Aparallactus lunulatus nigrocollaris — LAURENT 1958: 122
Aparallactus lunulatus nigrocollaris — PITMAN 1974
Aparallactus lunulatus nigrocollaris — TRAPE & MANÉ 2006: 172
Aparallactus lunulatus nigrocollaris — CHIRIO & LEBRETON 2007 
DistributionZimbabwe, S Mozambique, NE Republic of South Africa, Eswatini (Swaziland), Zambia, W/C/N Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Ghana to Eritrea, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Somalia, Central African Republic, Cameroon (nigrocollaris; fide Perret 1961, Böhme 1975), Botswana, Tanzania, Republic of South Sudan (RSS) ?, Sudan (Jumhūriyyat), Chad

nigrocollaris: Central African Republic, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Uganda

scortecci: Somalia

concolor: Type locality: Arusha, Tanzania.

Type locality: Tete, Mozambique.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZMB 4810
Holotype: BMNH [scortecci]
Syntypes: MNHN-RA 1916.0263-0264 (2 syntypes) [nigrocollaris]
Holotype: MSNM (Milano) [boulengeri] 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (4003 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentVenomous!

Synonymy partly after BROADLEY & HOWELL 1991. LANZA (1983) expresses doubt as to whether the subspecies scorteccii, from Somalia and adjacent parts of Ethiopia, merits taxonomic recognition; and the validity of the name nigrocollaris is similarly suspect (WELCH 1982), although PITMAN (1974) was inclined to accept the occurrence of this race in Uganda and southern Sudan (fide Largen & Rasmussen 1993: 330).

Genome: Colston et al. 2025. 
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