Hyperbolus new genus

Type species: Hyperbolus apicomplexus n. sp.

Inlcluded species. Hyperbolus apicomplexus n. sp., Hyperbolus morogoroensis (Kraus, 1958), n. comb .. Etymology. Name formed in analogy with many other names in the order Spirobolida, masculine. Diagnosis. A genus of East African Pachybolini characterized by

- coxal lobes on male legs 6 and 7

- one pair of ventral macrosetae on male legs from pair 5 onward - a distal complex of parallel ridges on posterior gonopod

- a free solenomerite on posterior gonopod

- distinct overlapping mesal lobes on anterior gonopod telopodites - no moveable appendix, no striated membranous lamellae, no mesal process on posterior gonopod - no long meso-distal process on anterior gonopod coxite

- apical margin of winglike expansions of second female coxae angled - an apical appendix on oral vulval valve