TIMYMA E.M. FROEHLICH, 1978

Type species: Timyma juliae E.M. Froehlich, 1978, designated by E. M. Froehlich (1978).

Diagnosis: Timymini with mouth approximately in midbody. Without parenchymatic longitudinal muscle. Pharyngeal pouch extends posteriorly beyond copulatory apparatus. Outer pharyngeal musculature tripartite, with an outer longitudinal muscle layer, a midcircular and an inner longitudinal muscle layer. Prostatic vesicle extrabulbar. Penis papilla absent. Distal section of male atrium narrowed. Ovovitelline ducts emerge from the ventral aspect of ovaries and subsequently ascend laterally to the female atrium to join dorsally to it. Female genital canal dilated to form an ootype projected from the dorsoposterior aspect of the female atrium. Without adhesive musculoglandular organs. Copulatory apparatus without adenodactyls (as re-diagnosed by Almeida et al., 2021).

Distribution: Regions Coquimbo and Valparaiso, Chile.