Eumecia anchietae Bocage, 1870

Parrinha, Diogo, Calado, Francisco M. G., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2025, Echoes of a lost museum: Revision of the herpetological collections sent by Barbosa du Bocage from the Lisbon Museum to the British Museum of Natural History, Vertebrate Zoology 75, pp. 353-404 : 353-404

Eumecia anchietae Bocage, 1870

Specimen.

Angola: Caconda : BMNH 1893.12.27.8 .

Comments.

Although not explicitly stated, Bocage (1870) seemingly described Eumecia anchietae based on a single specimen collected by Anchieta “ sur le plateau de la Huilla ”. Years later Bocage (1895 a) reported additional material, all specimens having been collected by Anchieta at Huíla, Caconda and Galanga. One specimen from Caconda presented to the British Museum in 1893, reported by Boulenger (1894 a) as Lygosoma anchietae , may be the only surviving specimen examined by Bocage. Curiously, the specimen bears an original label identifying it as Dumerilia bayonii [= Sepsina bayonii (Bocage, 1866) ].