Heterosphaeroparia Schubart, 1955

Type-species.

Heterosphaeroparia villiersi Schubart, 1955, by original designation; Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire .

Twenty segments (male, female); body length 5-6 mm. Male head without epicranial modifications. Paraterga relatively well developed, tergal setae long and bacilliform. Gonopodal coxae large, each with an evident apical process (cp) laterally, gonocoel shallow, leaving most of telopodite exposed; seminal groove rather short and straight, ending on a simple, long, finger-shaped solenomere (sl); telopodite basically bipartite with two subequal, high, ribbon-shaped processes/branches (ab and bb) distal to solenomere (Figure 2A).