Paratagalis Monte (1943a)

Type species: Paratagalis spinosus Monte, 1943a . By monotypy, two species included.

Diagnosis: Basiflagellomere long, almost three times the length of distiflagellomere; anterior pronotal lobe with four long spines; posterior pronotal lobe with two spines; procoxae spined; profemora and protibiae straight; profemora with a double series of spiniform setae of two lengths intermixed; protibiae with three long spiniform setae; mesonotum and metanotum spined (Monte 1943b, Gil-Santana and Costa 2009). In addition, clypeus usually spined; anterior margin of proepisternal supracoxal lobe projected; apex of profemora with a pair of processes; paramere nearly straight; arms of basal plate of articulatory apparatus longer than dorsal process of basal plate; ventral region of phallosoma with microtrichia; posteromedial margin of tergite 8 produced; tergite 9 longer than wide, with posteromedial margin tapering and with a process; gonocoxa 8 near triangular; and the gonoplac compose by a pair of sclerites, with the apex tapering and its lateral external margins straight.

Examined material: Paratagalis spinosus Monte, 1943: one male, PARAGUAY: Encarnación, x.1999, CDC, Carpintero (MLP) ; one female, ARGENTINA: Corrientes, Ituzaingó, Reserva Santa María, x.2003, trampa de luz (MLP) ; one female, COLOMBIA: Caldas, Norcasia, xi.2013, C. Llano (MPUJ) .