Parafontaria Verhoeff 1936

Genus Parafontaria Verhoeff, 1936 Parafontaria Verhoeff, 1936b: 300–301 (with type species Fontaria (Parafontaria) armigera Verhoeff, 1936, originally erected as a subgenus). Japonaria Verhoeff, 1936a: 155 (invalidly proposed without type species, see Hoffman 1978b: 216). Japonaria Attems, 1938: 174 (with type species: Fontaria (Japonaria) falcifera Verhoeff, 1936), synonymized by Hoffman (1978b: 216). Grayaria Chamberlin, 1943: 16 (with type species: Grayaria attemsii Chamberlin, 1943), synonymized by Hoffman (1978b: 216). Parafontaria – Tanabe 2002: 2144–2149. — Lim 2001: 133–134. Type species Fontaria (Parafontaria) armigera Verhoeff, 1936: 301–303, figs 4–6; “Suwa bei Tokio ”. Diagnosis “Separable from other confamiliars [in the subfamily Xystodesminae] by the following characters: gonopods forming one and a half to two loops; cyphopods with the membranous bellows tube. In some species, the coxae and sternite of segment 3 of females are strongly modified.” (Tanabe 2002: 2144). Species included At present 14 species of Parafontaria are recognized as valid (Tanabe 2002; Sierwald et al. 2025): Parafontaria crenata Shinohara, 1986, P. doenitzi (Karsch, 1880), P. erythrosoma (Takakuwa, 1942), P. falcifera (Verhoeff, 1936), P. ishiii Shinohara, 1986, P. koreana (Paik, 1963), P. laminata (Attems, 1909), P. longa Shinohara, 1986, P. shiraiwaensis Shinohara, 1986, P. spathulata (Miyosi, 1951), P. takakuwai (Shinohara, 1957), P. terminalis (Takakuwa, 1942), P. tokaiensis Tanabe, 2002, and Parafontaria tonominea (Attems, 1899). Distribution According to Tanabe (2002), all species of Parafontaria are endemic to Japan (Tanabe 2002: 2139). However, he missed the single Korean species, P. koreana described by Paik (1963). Here, we confirm its identification based on new material.