Genus Parapaulipalpina Gnaspini

Parapaulipalpina Gnaspini, 1996: 524. Type species: Parapaulipalpina dentata Gnaspini (orig. des.).

= Viruana Salgado, 2013: 89 (as subgenus of Excelsiorella Salgado [2008], synonymized under Adelopsis Portevin [1907] by Gnaspini et al., 2016: 274); Gnaspini et al., 2016: 274 syn. Type species: Excelsiorella tambopata Salgado (orig. des.).

Distribution: Northern South America.

Species of Parapaulipalpina are characterized by the following characters (including those of the subtribe Ptomaphagina) (e.g., Gnaspini, 1996; Antunes-Carvalho & Gnaspini, 2016; Gnaspini et al., 2020): Shape oblong. Generally small bodied specimens. Pubescense golden, with many short recumbent setae. Head integument with punctures generally not organized in strigae. Antenna 11-segmented, antenommere 8 smaller than 7 and 9. Antenna somewhat short. Eye normal. Palp normal. Pronotum transverse, widest at base, with closely distributed transverse strigae; posterior angles acute. Elytron regularly rounded, with transverse strigae, as dense as that of the pronotum. Sutural striae entire. Metathoracic wing fully developed. Mesoventrum with longitudinal carina. Apex of tibiae armed with a comb of many short and equal fixed spines. Protarsi laterally expanded in males, bearing tenent setae. Mesotibia curved inwards in both sexes. Tarsi of all legs bearing a pair of empodial setae with asymmetric length; the distal margin of the terminal tarsomere with a pair of medial projections (‘mpp’ of Antunes-Carvalho & Gnaspini, 2016); claws with small dorsal spines close to their base and with a few long and acuminate spines at their dorsolateral margin (respectively ‘sdc’ and ‘slc’ of Antunes-Carvalho & Gnaspini, 2016). Male genital segment globular, spiculum gastrale straight and somewhat long. Aedeagus elongate, bearing a paralobe (as defined in Gomyde et al., 2024); apical orifice dorsally subterminal and cutting the apex of the aedeagus slightly left from the median axis; the dorsal opening being somewhat oval in shape; aedeagus somewhat S-shaped in dorsal view; flagellum elongate, longer than the aedeagus; basal bulb of the flagellum placed outside the aedeagus in the rest position. Females have the same characters as males, except for the protarsus, which is slender. Spermatheca bearing a 2-turns coil and a long apical bulb. Only the specific characters will be listed in the following description.