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Leptotyphlops nigricans nigricans (part): Broadley and Watson (1976:490). 
Leptotyphlops nigricans (part): McDiarmid et al. (1999:39). 
Leptotyphlops kafubi: Broadley and Broadley (1999:18), Broadley and Wallaeh (2007b: 11), Wallaeh et al. 
(2014:368). 
Global conservation status (lUCN): Not Evaluated. 
Global distribution: The species is known from southeastern Africa, from eastern Angola, the 
former Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of Congo to Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe. 
Ocurrences in Angola (Map 260): The 
species has been recorded from eastern Ango¬ 
la. Moxico: “environs du lac Calundo” 
[-11.80000, 20.86667] (Laurent 1964a:91; 
Broadley and Watson 1976:490; Broadley and 
Broadley 1999:18); “Chutes de la Luisavo, 
Cabinda, Haul Zambeze” [-11.86667, 
23.58333] (Laurent 1964a:91; Broadley and 
Watson 1976:490; Broadley and Broadley 
1999:18). 
Taxonomic and distributional notes: 
Broadley and Watson (1976) provided a map 
with the Angolan records from Laurent 
(1964a) assigned to Leptotyphlops nigricans 
(Schlegel, 1839). They described the species 
range of L. nigricans as discontinuous, with 
the nominate population occurring in the 
southern Cape Province (now Western and ^60. Distribution of Leptotyphlops kafubi in 
Eastern Cape provinces. South Africa), with a 
small group of locality records in the central portion of the former Transvaal Province separated by 
a wide gap from the remainder of the distribution, which extends north from central Zambia 
through eastern Angola to Uganda and South Sudan (Broadley and Watson 1976). Broadley and 
Broadley (1999) formally diagnosed the L. nigricans group, including the southern African species 
L.jacobseni Broadley and Broadley, 1999, L. kafubi (Boulenger, 1919) andZ. nigricans. They also 
restricted L. nigricans to the southern Cape provinces of South Africa and used L. kafubi as a new 
combination and attributed to it the Angolan records previously assigned to Leptotyphlops emini 
emini. 
Leptotyphlops scutifrons (Peters, 1854) Peters’ Thread Snake 
Stenostoma scutifrons Peters 1854:621. Holotype: ZMB 4826, lost fide Broadley and Watson (1976), Hahn 
(1980) and Bauer et al. (1995, 2002) (eolleetor W.C.H. Peters). Type loeality: “Sena” (Peters 1854:621), 
[= Vila da Sena, Zambezi River], Mozambique. 
Stenostoma seutifrons (part): Peters (1865:261), Boeage (1873b:251, 1895a:71). 
Stenostoma nigrieans (part): Boeage (1866a:46). 
Glaueonia seutifrons (part): Ferreira (1904:114), Boulenger (1905:112, 1915:198), Monard (1937b: 106). 
Leptotyphlops eonjuneta distanti (part): Bogert (1940:13). 
Leptotyphlops seutifrons seutifrons (part): Broadley and Watson (1976:497), Broadley and Broadley 
(1999:23). 
Leptotyphlops seutifrons (part): MeDiarmid et al. (1999:41). 
Leptotyphlops seutifrons'. Bates et al. (2014:321), Wallaeh et al. (2014:364). 
Leptotyphlops seutifrons eomplex: Conradie et al. (2016:23). 
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