Poratophilus Silvestri, 1897

Redman, Guy T., Hamer, Michelle L. & Barraclough, David A., 2003, Revision of the Harpagophoridae (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida) of southern Africa, including descriptions of five new species, African Invertebrates 44 (2), pp. 203-277 : 269

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Poratophilus Silvestri, 1897
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Poratophilus Silvestri, 1897 View in CoL

Poratophilus Silvestri, 1897: 16 View in CoL ; Attems 1914 1926 1928; Carl 1917; Schubart 1966; Jeekel 1970; Demange 1983; Hoffman 1994; Hamer 1998.

Type species: Poratophilus australis Silvestri, 1897 .

Diagnosis (modified from Hoffman 1994): Paracoxites of gonopods elongate ( Fig. 191 View Figs 191–192 ). Posterior telocoxal fold simple, broadly rounded and without lobes or processes along medial margin ( Fig. 191 View Figs 191–192 ). Telopodite with one sickle-shaped femoral spine with acute point ( Fig. 192 View Figs 191–192 ). Apex of femoral spine directed laterally away from medial margin of telocoxite. Apex of telopodite with two branches (the pectinophore and thumb = primary branch, and the second lamella = secondary branch) ( Fig. 192 View Figs 191–192 ). Prefemora of first pair of male legs small, broadly in contact medially, and with elongate subtriangular basal projection. Coxae coalesced without trace of medial suture ( Fig. 200 View Figs 193–200 ).

Distribution: The locality of the type species, P. australis was only given as ‘Africa meridionalis’. P. gorteri is known only from its type locality, in Mabalingwe in the Waterberg District, Limpopo, South Africa.

Remarks: Throughout this study no specimens of Poratophilus were collected. The only Poratophilus material available for purposes of this study was that of P. gorteri .

The rounded form of the anterior telocoxal fold and the orientation of the femoral spine (apex of femoral spine directed laterally) in the two species of Poratophilus are the main characters separating the genus from Zinophora .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

Order

Spirostreptida

Family

Harpagophoridae

Loc

Poratophilus Silvestri, 1897

Redman, Guy T., Hamer, Michelle L. & Barraclough, David A. 2003
2003
Loc

Poratophilus

SILVESTRI, F. 1897: 16
1897
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