Spinotarsus xanthonotus Attems, 1909

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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)

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.