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 Genus Bandeirenica Kraus, 1960 Bandeirenica : Kraus 1960: 19–20 ; Hoffman 2000. Type species: Spinotarsus bandeirensis Kraus, 1958 , by original designation. Diagnosis: Paraprocts without spines, but wrinkled in dorsal part ( Fig. 78 , pa ). Gonopod tarsus tube-like, solenomere with long slender spinous process at base of distal quarter ( Fig. 77 , tp2) and with triangular process near apex ( Fig. 77 , tp1 ). Distribution: Two species, B . bandeirenica (Kraus, 1958) and B. donguensis (Kraus 1958) , are known from southeast Angola . One species, B. caboverda (Pierrad, 1987) , was accidently introduced to the Cape Verde islands, probably from Angola , and acts as a crop pest for potatoes (Hoffman 2000). Remarks: Kraus (1960) described this genus and distinguished it from the extremely species-rich Spinotarsus on the basis of the latter genus having a typical basal lamella on the gonopod tarsus that is lacking in Bandeirenica . Hoffman (2000) discussed the presence or absence of this process as being of specific value only and suggested that Bandeirenica be synonymised under Syndesmogenus .