Parabolus new genus

Type species: Trigoniulus dimorphus Carl, 1909 .

Included species. Parabolus dimorphus (Carl, 1909), n. comb., Parabolus calceus n. sp. 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 very long meso-distal process on anterior gonopod coxite

- a small laterobasal stout spine on terminal gonopod segment

- no moveable appendix, no striated membranous lamellae, no mesal process, no free solenomerite, no distal complex of parallel ridges on posterior gonopod

- no distinct overlapping lobes on anterior gonopod telopodites

- apical margin of winglike expansions of second female coxae angled

- an apical appendix on oral vulval valve