Peripatopsis capensis

{{Short description|Species of velvet worm}}

{{Speciesbox

| image = Peripatopsis capensis 16045920.jpg

| genus = Peripatopsis

| species = capensis

| authority = (Grube, 1866)

| synonyms =

• Peripatus capensis (Grube, 1866)

}}

Peripatopsis capensis is a species of velvet worm in the Peripatopsidae family.{{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 has 18 pairs of legs: 17 pregenital leg pairs with claws plus one strongly reduced last pair without claws or spinous pads.{{Cite journal |last1=McDonald |first1=Dane E. |last2=Ruhberg |first2=Hilke |last3=Daniels |first3=Savel R. |date=2012-07-05 |title=Two new Peripatopsis species (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae) from the Western Cape province, South Africa |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265259210 |journal=Zootaxa |volume=3380 |issue=1 |pages=55–68 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3380.1.4 |issn=1175-5334 |via=ResearchGate}}{{Cite journal |last=Purcell |first=W.F. |date=1899 |title=On the South African species of Peripatidae in the collection of the South African Museum |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1520227#page/357/mode/1up |journal=Annals of the South African Museum |volume=1 |pages=331–351 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}} Females of this species range from 9 mm to 70 mm in length, whereas males range from 6 mm to 54 mm.{{Cite journal |last=Monge-Nájera |first=Julián |date=1994 |title=Reproductive trends, habitat type and body characteristcs in velvet worms (Onychophora) |url=https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/23266 |journal=Revista de Biología Tropical |volume=42 |issue=3 |language=en |pages=611–622 |issn=2215-2075}} The native range of this species is limited to the Cape Peninsula of South Africa.{{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|pmid=22930648|pmc=3426840|doi-access=free|bibcode=2012ZooK..211....1O }}