Paratagalis Monte (1943a)

Castro-Huertas, Valentina & Melo, María Cecilia, 2025, Reassessment of the Saicini phylogeny and evolution of hairy attachment structures on tarsi (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203 (1), pp. 1-20 : 14

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae171
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14764774
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scientific name	Paratagalis Monte (1943a)
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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) .