Spinotarsus Attems, 1909

Enghoff, Henrik, 2022, Mountains of millipedes. The family Odontopygidae in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida), European Journal of Taxonomy 803, pp. 1-136 : 87-88

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2022.803.1691
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6359135
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scientific name	Spinotarsus Attems, 1909
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Genus Spinotarsus Attems, 1909 View in CoL

Type species

Spinotarsus xanthonotus Attems, 1909 ( Namibia) View in CoL 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.