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.