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
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African Invertebrates
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Spinotarsus xanthonotus
Attems, 1909
Figs 85–87
Spinotarsus xanthonotus
:
Attems 1909
a
: 47–49
, figs 9–11, 74, 80–82; 1909
b
: 51 (
nomen nudum
); 1914
a
: 201; 1928: 400; Schubart 1966: 171; Hamer 1998: 68. Diagnosis: Gonopod solenomere with apical spiral (
Fig. 85
,
s
), tarsus much enlarged (
Fig. 86
,
ta
), and both prefemoral (
Fig. 86
,
prfp
) and tibial processes (
Fig. 86
,
tip
)
Figs 85–87.
Spinotarsus xanthonotus
Attems
, ♂: (85) gonopod, aboral view; (86) telopodite, oral view; (87) telocoxite, oral view. Abbreviations: (s) solenomere, (prfp) prefemoral process, (ta) tarsal lobe, (tip) tibial process, (tl1) basal lobe of tarsus. Scale bar = 1 mm.
distinct. Telocoxite narrowly rounded apically, with lateral bulge about midway along length, and narrow lobe distal to this (
Figs 85, 87
).
Description:
Size
: There are 60 body segments.
Colour
: Head black-brown. Antenna brown, 6
th
segment black. Collum black-brown, posteriorly black, with dark reddish border. Prozonites black-brown. Metazonites dark brown, yellow-red midline dorsally up to tip of epiproct, middle region of bulge of paraprocts lighter.
Head
: Epicranial suture weak, interocular suture absent.
Collum
: 1–3 folds.
Tergites and sternites
: Ozopores present from 6
th
segment onwards, striation on metazonites ending distinctly below ozopores.
Legs
: Pads present up to last leg pair.
Gonopods
: As in diagnosis.
Material examined:
NAMIBIA
:
1♂
Kamanjab district
,
Kaross
[
19°37'S
14°50'E
],
10.ii.1987
,
E. Griffin
(
SMN 21925
) (
NMNW
)
;
1♂
Windhoek district
,
Colorado
[
22°33'S
17°04'E
],
xii.1976
,
M.L. Penrith
& ‘
S.L.
’ (
SMN 21779
) (
NMNW
)
;
1♂
Windhoek district
,
Regenstein
32 [
22°42'55"S
17°01'50"E
,
1948 m
],
7.ii.1973
,
M.L. Penrith
,
J. Tebje
& B.A.
Harding
(
SMN 21743
) (
NMNW
)
;
1♂
Windhoek district
,
Portsmut
33 [
25°05'S
16°21'E
],
7.ii.1969
,
P.G. Olivier
(
SMN 21648
) (
NMNW
)
.
Distribution: Nambia (Windhoek district) and
Botswana
.