Mountains of millipedes. The family Odontopygidae in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida)
Author
Enghoff, Henrik
FB09A817-000D-43C3-BCC4-2BC1E5373635
Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK- 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.
henghoff@snm.ku.dk
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2022
2022-03-14
803
1
136
http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.803.1691
journal article
20167
10.5852/ejt.2022.803.1691
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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.