Genus Parastephanellus Enderlein, 1906

This genus was first proposed as Parastephanus (Enderlein 1905), including species from the Indo-Australian as well as the Neotropical regions. It was later changed to Parastephanellus (Enderlein 1906) because the original name was preoccupied by Haeckel for Protozoa. Enderlein also transfered the Neotropical species to a new genus, Hemistephanus.

Many Parastephanellus specimens can be still recognized by Enderlein's original diagnosis, but some species can eventually be confounded with Hemistephanus. Nevertheless, the geographic distribution of the two groups are distinct enough to prevent such mistake of ocurring with labelled specimens. However, whether Hemistephanus is trully related to Parastephanellus or not has never been proved, and the monophyly of the genus Parastephanellus itself was never assessed.

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