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Global conservation status (lUCN): Not 
Evaluated. 
Global distribution: The subspecies is 
endemic to southern Angola. 
Ocurrences in Angola (Map 318): The 
subspecies occurs in southwestern Angola near 
Namibia border. Benguela: “Dombe” 
[-12.95000, 13.10000] (Bocage 1867b:224). 
Huila: “Gambos” [-15.76667, 14.10000] 
(Bocage 1873a:221, 1895a: 108; Monard 
1937b: 128; Broadley 1977d:20-21). Cunene: 
“Humbe” [-16.68333, 14.90000] (Bocage 
1895a:108; Boulenger 1896:139, Monard 
1937b:128; Broadley 1977c:21). Undeter¬ 
mined Locality: “No specific locality (Coll. 
Anchieta)” (Broadley 1977d:21). 
Taxonomic and distributional notes: 
Broadley (1977c) and subsequent authors 
(Broadley 1990; Branch 1998; Bates et al. 
2014) have considered P. r ocellatus (Linnaeus, 1758) as a valid subspecies. The type of Psam- 
mophylax ocellatus Bocage, 1873 was not located by Broadley during his visit to the Museu 
Bocage in 1968 (Broadley 1977b). Wallach et al. (2014) noted that Broadley (1977d) had restrict¬ 
ed the type locality oi P r. rhombeatus to “SW Western Cape Prov., South Africa” but Broadley 
took no such formal action, merely noting that the type specimens “agree well” with with 
specimens of P. rhombeatus rhombeatus from the southwestern Cape Province, from wherer the 
types doubtless originated. 
Map 318 . Distribution of Psammophylax rhombeatus 
ocellatus in Angola. 
Psammophylax tritaeniatus (Gunther, 1868) Striped Skaapsteker 
Rhagerrhis tritaeniata: Gunther 1868:423, pi. 19, fig. H. Holotype: BMNH 1946.1.2.78 (collector Warwick). 
Type locality: “probably from South-eastern Africa”, (“presumably Rhodesia [Zimbabwe] or the Trans¬ 
vaal” [= Limpopo or Mpumalanga], South Africa fide Broadley 1977c:32). 
Rhagerrhis tritaeniata-. Bocage (1873b:220, 1879b:95, 1887c:210, 1895a: 110, 1896a: 112, 1897b:211), 
Ferreira (1897b:244). 
Cerastes tritaeniatus tritaeniatus'. Mertens (1937a: 14, 1938a:441), Bogert (1940:77). 
Trimerorhinus rhombeatus tritaeniatus'. Monard (1937b: 130). 
Psammophylax tritaeniatus tritaeniatus'. Hellmich (1857b:71), Loveridge (1957:276), Laurent (1964a:110). 
Psammophylax tritaeniatus'. Broadley (1977c:32, 1990:124), Branch (1998:88), Wallach et al. (2014:583). 
Global conservation status (lUCN): Least Concern. 
Global distribution: The species endemic to sub-Saharan Africa, from the former province of 
Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola and Zambia to southern Tanzania and south 
through Zimbabwe, western Mozambique, Botswana, northern Namibia and northeastern South 
Africa. 
Ocurrences in Angola (Map 319): The species distribution probably comprises the most 
southern regions of Angola, with exception of the Namibe Province, as well as Mexico. Moxico: 
“Cazombo” [-11.88333, 22.91667] (Laurent 1964a:110; Broadley 1977c:36). Benguela: “Cahata” 
[-12.35000, 14.81667] (Bocage 1895a:110; Broadley 1977c:36); “Quissange” [-12.43333, 
14.05000] (Bocage 1887c:210, 1895a:110; Broadley 1977c:36); “Quindumbo” [-12.46667, 
14.93333] (Bocage 1895a:110; Broadley 1977c:36); “Ebanga” [-12.73333, 14.73333] (Monard 
