Spinotarsus Attems, 1909

Enghoff, Henrik, 2022, Mountains of millipedes. The family Odontopygidae in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida), European Journal of Taxonomy 803, pp. 1-136 : 87-88

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2022.803.1691

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8B66C8AE-F00A-42F6-9641-26B0ECC49F78

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6359135

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F15C39-D673-0660-FDA4-F94FC1B6FEAF

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scientific name

Spinotarsus Attems, 1909
status

 

Genus Spinotarsus Attems, 1909 View in CoL

Type species

Spinotarsus xanthonotus Attems, 1909 ( Namibia) View in CoL 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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

Order

Spirostreptida

Family

Odontopygidae

Loc

Spinotarsus Attems, 1909

Enghoff, Henrik 2022
2022
Loc

S. fortehamatus

Enghoff 2018
2018
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