Genus Austrogastrura Thibaud & Palacios-Vargas, 1999

Diagnosis. Habitus typical of Hypogastruridae; body chaetotaxy with smooth or ciliated setae; 5+5 eyes in strongly pigmented eyepatches, postantennal organ formed by one vesicle with a strong tendency to division into four or five lobes; antennal segment IV with 5–8 sensilla; tibiotarsi without unguiculi, tenent hair pointed