Lovxophoroi, firstly, translates into 'lance bearer'.

Secondly, we have Fabius Pictor, who tells us that the Africans were arranged in phalanx-like groups. Now, we also have Xanthippos, who re-trains the Carthaginians to fight in a phalanx formation. He puts them in Macedonian (not Greek) style Phylae, and reorganizes their command in the model of the Successor kingdoms. Carthaginian cavalry of the period is also changed significantly, as much of it becomes shock cavalry not so different from that of the Macedonian model.

Add to this two mentions of 'twelve thousand very long spears, sixteen cubits in length' as part of an armory's inventory in 245 B.C. Carthage, and we can really begin to appreciate that there is definitely a unit of native pikemen. Now, most of our Carthaginians (Liby-Phoenicians) will fight much like Hoplites, but the citizen phalanx will be ordered like it was under Xanthippos, in the Macedonian (pike) style.