Pararhauculus Roewer, 1933

Kury, Adriano B. & Medrano, Miguel, 2018, A whiter shade of pale: anchoring the name Paecilaema C. L. Koch, 1839 onto a neotype (Opiliones, Cosmetidae), Zootaxa 4521 (2), pp. 191-219 : 212-213

Pararhauculus Roewer, 1933 nom. rest.

Pararhauculus Roewer 1933: 291 [junior subjective synonym of Paecilaema C.L. Koch, 1839 by Goodnight & Goodnight (1953b: 55); type species: Pararhauculus lineatus Roewer, 1933 , by monotypy].

Diagnosis. Large cosmetids (6 mm of body length) with moderately long and robust legs (I to IV: 14/26/20/ 26 mm). DS outline beta-type, scutal area I and II with two paramedian blunt tubercles, area III with acuminated tubercles. White blots as complete arborescent chevron, backbone and complex omega stripe. Legs I-IV almost with same width and straight or sub-straight. Femur IV uniformly tuberculate without large spines. Hypertelic chelicerae in males, with bulla moderately incrassate. Tarsal counts: 7/15–16/19 /11.

Included species. Only the type species.

4) Pararhauculus lineatus Roewer, 1933 comb. rest.

Pararhauculus lineatus Roewer 1933: 291 , fig. 16 [2 ♂ syntypes (SMF RII 3009), COSTA RICA, Cartago. Irazú, 9.98°N, 83.85°W].

Paecilaema lineatum: Goodnight & Goodnight 1953: 54 ; Kury 2003: 77.