Genus Parageron Paramonov, 1929

Type species

Parageron orientalis Paramonov, 1929 by monotypy.

Diagnosis

Rather delicate pale yellow species ( Par. erythraeus darker), male eyes holoptic (or very narrowly separated in Par. erythraeus) with upper facets enlarged. The single feature differentiating this genus from all others in Parageron s. lat. is the presence of a round blackish (sometimes velvety) spot placed on the thoracic suture above the notopleuron (see TSS in Gibbs 2011: fig. 2).

Etymology

‘Near Geron ’, referring to similarity with the genus Geron (from ‘Para’, ‘Παρά’ Greek prefix = ‘near’ and ‘ geron ’, from Greek ‘γέρων’ = ‘old man’).

Included species

Parageron erythraeus (Greathead, 1967)

Parageron lutescens (Bezzi, 1925)

Parageron longilingua sp. nov.

Parageron orientalis Paramonov, 1929