Zinophora sabulosa (Attems, 1928)

Vohland, Katrin & Hamer, Michelle, 2013, A review of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Namibia, with identification keys and descriptions of two new genera and five new species, African Invertebrates 54 (1), pp. 251-251 : 291

Zinophora sabulosa (Attems, 1928)

Figs 71–74

Poratophilus sabulosus: Attems 1922: 98 (nomen nudum); 1928: 380, figs 343–346.

Poratophilus (Philoporatia) sabulosus: Schubart 1966: 159 .

Zinophora sabulosa: Hamer 1998: 56 ; Redman et al. 2003: 259.

Diagnosis: Lateral lamella of telocoxite with prominent lobe medially ( Fig. 71, mp), and digitiform process laterally ( Fig. 71, lp). Median lamella with median spinous process ( Fig. 72, sp). One long femoral spine on telopodite, this being curved inwards, passing just below telocoxal spine and lobe and reaching opposite gonopod telocoxite ( Figs 71, 72, fp). Thumb reduced, branching off base of pectinophore and curved away from other apical elements ( Fig. 71, t).

Description:

Size: Width 11 mm, length about 110 mm; 46 segments.

Colour: Antennae dark brown, legs red-brown. Prozonites light brown, metazonites darker, posterior margin orange-brown. Anal segment dorsally light brown, paraprocts darker brown.

Head: Eye parallel to antenna, antenna almost reaching posterior margin of collum, antennomere 2>3>4>5>6>7=1>8 ( Fig. 73).

Collum: Subquadratic, with thick raised margin anteriorly ( Fig. 73).

Tergites and sternites: Prozonites with irregular longitudinal striation, metazonites with striation reaching above the ozopores. Ozopores set below mid-body from lateral view, starting from 6th segment. Sternites smooth. Terminal segment with distinct spiniform process ( Fig. 74).

Legs: Pads on legs up until the terminal diplosegments.

Gonopods: As in diagnosis.

Material examined: NAMIBIA: 1♂ 5 ♀ Omaheke region, Eiseb River, Hereroland , 20°40'S 20°59'E, 18.xi–15.xii.1988, E. Marais & M. Paxton ( SMN 21981 ) ( NMNW) ; 1♂ Omaheke region, Hereroland , 20°33'S 20°54'E, 20.xi–16.xii.1988, E. Marais & M. Paxton ( SMN 21984 ) ( NMNW) .

Distribution: Namibia and South Africa. Occurs widely in northern parts of South Africa, from Pretoria in Gauteng to North West and Northern Cape provinces. In Namibia, found in the Otjozondjupa (Farm Neitsas, Grootfontein, Otjiwarongo) and Omaheke regions.

Remarks: The whereabouts of the type material is unknown.