Mecistoparia Brolemann, 1926

Type-species.

Mecistoparia lophotocrania Brolemann, 1926, by original designation; Dahomey.

Nineteen segments (male, female); body length 3-3.5 mm. Male head without epicranial modifications. Paraterga moderate; setae long and bacilliform. Gonopodal coxae very strongly developed; gonocoel very deep, almost fully concealing telopodite; seminal groove very short and simple, ending on a long simple solenomere (sl); telopodite with a long apical finger-shaped branch (ab) directed basaly and a shorter finger-shaped branch (bb) parabasally; telopodite bipartite (Figure 2B, C).