South African Peripatopsids  (Peripatopsis spp.)

Found in South Africa. The white cave velvet worm (P. alba) is known only from the Table Mountain and Bats Cave system of the Western Cape, the Knysna velvet worm (P. clavigera) along the coastal region of the George / Knysna area in the Western Cape, and in the Tsitsikamma Forest in the Eastern Cape, and Lion's Hill velvet worm (P. leonina) from Lion's Hill (Signal Hill) of the Cape Peninsula, Western Cape (1).

In Wynberg Cave, the white cave velvet worm (P. alba) has largely been located in a galley 30 m below the surface that is constantly damp, continuously dark, and where the only vegetation is small greyish lichen (1) (7). The Knysna velvet worm (P. clavigera) inhabits the forest floor of indigenous Afromontane forest, in rotting logs and amongst moist leaf litter (1) (7). Lion's Hill velvet worm (P. leonina) was originally collected from Fynbos habitat, in small ravines under stones (1).