Spinotarsus Attems, 1909

Enghoff, Henrik, 2018, A mountain of millipedes VI. New records, new species, a new genus and a general discussion of Odontopygidae from the Udzungwa Mts, Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Odontopygidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 394, pp. 1-29 : 20

Genus Spinotarsus Attems, 1909

Spinotarsus Attems, 1909b: 46 .

Type species

Spinotarsus xanthonotus Attems, 1909 .

Other included species

Almost one hundred; see Kraus (1960, 1966).

Remarks

The vast majority of species of Spinotarsus occur in southern Africa; only two, viz, S. serrulatus Kraus, 1958 and S. terrestris (Attems, 1935) , are from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Two species described from other parts of the Afrotropical region have subsequently been transferred to other genera: S. caboverdus Pierrard, 1987 ( Cape Verde Islands) was transferred to the genus Bandeirenica Kraus, 1960 by Hoffman (2000); S. dissutus Hoffman, 1963 ( Tanzania) , was made type of the genus Hoffmanides by Kraus (1966), see above. The new species described below is thus the first true Spinotarsus from Tanzania.