Type species. Hypogastrura (Mesogastrura) carpetana Bonet, 1930
Type locality. Cueva del Reguerillo, Patones, Municipality of Torrelaguna, Madrid, Spain.
Diagnosis. Body color mostly white. Head with mostly less than 5 + 5 eyes. AIIIO with 2 long guards and 2 short sensilla. PAO of simple form with 4 or rarely 5 lobes. Tibiotarsi with 2 or more knobbed tenent hairs. Empodium reduced, chaeta-like shape. Furca well developed, mucro spear head-shaped. Anal spines absent (Thibaud et al. 2004).
Distribution. Cosmopolitan (Europe, South Africa, Equador, Japan and South Korea)