Florelliceps

{{Short description|Genus and species of Peripatopsid velvet worm}}

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| genus = Florelliceps

| parent_authority = Tait & Norman, 2001

| species = stutchburyae

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Florelliceps is a monospecific genus of ovoviviparous velvet worm containing the single species Florelliceps stutchburyae.{{cite web|author=Oliveira, I. S.|author2=Hering, L.|author3=Mayer, G.|name-list-style=amp|title=Updated Onychophora checklist|url=http://www.onychophora.com/list.htm|website=Onychophora Website|access-date=24 November 2016}} This species is brown with 15 pairs of oncopods (legs). During mating, the male of this species uses a structure on his head to place a spermataphore on the gonopore of the female.{{Cite journal |last1=Tait |first1=Noel N. |last2=Norman |first2=Jennifer M. |date=2001 |title=Novel mating behaviour in Florelliceps stutchburyae gen. nov., sp. nov. (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae) from Australia |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/S0952836901000280 |journal=Journal of Zoology |volume=253 |issue=3 |pages=301–308 |doi=10.1017/s0952836901000280 |issn=0952-8369|url-access=subscription }} The type locality is Mount Warning, New South Wales, Australia.{{cite journal|last1=Oliveira|first1=I. S.|last2=Read|first2=V. M. S. J.|last3=Mayer|first3=G.|title=A world checklist of Onychophora (velvet worms), with notes on nomenclature and status of names|journal=ZooKeys|date=2012|issue=211|pages=1–70|doi=10.3897/zookeys.211.3463|pmc=3426840|pmid=22930648|doi-access=free|bibcode=2012ZooK..211....1O }}