Tanzaniella Hoffman 1977

Genus Tanzaniella Hoffman, 1977 Tanzaniella Hoffman, 1977: 77. Type species Tanzaniella howelli Hoffman, 1977 (Tanzania) by monotypy. Diagnosis Tanzaniella differs from other Tanzanian genera of Chelodesmidae as shown in Table 2, notably by the solenomere which is very much broader than and by far more conspicuous than the other terminal telopodital process. Other included species None. Remarks Hoffman (1977) compared the type and only species of Tanzaniella with the type (and then only) species of Morogorius, viz., M. pallidus Verhoeff, 1941. He noticed several specific similarities including a broadened solenomere and realized that “eventual annectant forms may be found that connect the two nominal genera” (Hoffman 1977: 76). Although five additional species of Morogorius have been described here, T. howelli still stands out by the extreme development of the solenomere, compared with a very thin prefemoral process (tibiotarsus of Hoffman 1977). For the time being the two genera are therefore kept separate.