A review of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Namibia, with identification keys and descriptions of two new genera and five new species Author Vohland, Katrin Author Hamer, Michelle text African Invertebrates 2013 2013-06-30 54 1 251 251 journal article 2305-2562 6B95969B-485A-4E3F-9FBE-4F992A5F2DC5 Genus Zinophora Chamberlin, 1927 Zinophora : Chamberlin 1927: 211 ; Schubart 1966: 164; Demange 1983: 579; Hamer 1998: 55; Redman et al. 2003: 230. Poratophilus : Attems 1928: 376 . Philoporatia : Attems 1928: 376; Lawrence 1965: 50. Synonymised by Demange (1983: 579). Poratophilus (Philoporatia) : Schubart 1966: 156. Type species: Zinophora munda Chamberlin, 1927 , by original designation. Diagnosis: Telopodite with one or two simple femoral processes, where two spines present these of similar size. Apical elements comprising three components: the pectinophore, thumb and second lamella ( Fig. 71 , p , t , sl ). Thumb narrow and falcate, or a saucer-shaped, laminate plate broadening apically, curving away from other apical elements. Distal ends of telocoxites complexly lobed ( Fig. 71 ). Prefemora of first legs not touching medially and syncoxosternum without suture (Redman et al. 2003). Distribution: Most diverse in South Africa , where the genus is widely distributed; also occurs in Mozambique , Zimbabwe , Zambia and Namibia (Redman et al. 2003). Remarks: Attems (1928) assigned five new species to the genus Poratophilus Silvestri, 1897 , but stated that the illustrations of the type species, P. australis Silvestri, 1897 , were so poor that it was not possible to be certain about this designation, or of the three species described by Carl (1917) in Poratophilus . Attems (1928) suggested that if the five species described were found not to be congeneric with australis , then the name Philoporatia should be used. He did not provide any diagnosis for this genus. Schubart (1966) used the name Philoporatia as a subgenus of Poratophilus , and Demange (1983) later synonymised Philoporatia with Zinophora , and placed Attems’s (1928) and Carl’s (1917) three species into the latter genus. Hoffman (1994) later verified Poratophilus as a valid genus and described the South African P. gorteri Hoffman, 1994 , as a second species in the genus.