Genus Spinotarsus Attems, 1909

Type species

Spinotarsus xanthonotus Attems, 1909 (Namibia) by subsequent designation of Attems (1909a).

Other included species

Close to one hundred Kraus (1960, 1966). Most species are from southern Africa – only one species is known from Tanzania, viz S. fortehamatus Enghoff, 2018, from the Udzungwa Mts, to which a species described as new below can now be added.

Diagnosis

Differs from other genera of Prionopetalini by having a spinulose basal telomeral lamella, often in combination with a darkened lamella arising from the posterior side of the telomere.