Genus Paurotarsus Hancock, 1900

Paurotarsus Hancock, 1900a: 42 (original description of the genus with a single species, Paurotarsus amazonus Hancock, 1900, drawings of the type species in a figure on page 43); 1907a: 70 (reproduction of the original description). — Kirby 1910: 60 (catalogued). — Grant 1955b: 7 (key to the species and subspecies). — Otte 1978: 40 (catalogued). — Cadena-Castañeda & Cardona Granda 2015: 461 (catalogued). — Storozhenko 2019: 105 (catalogued). — Silva et al. 2021: 16 (catalogued).

TYPE SPECIES. — Tettix ruficornis Walker, 1871, of which P. amazonus is a junior synonym, type species fixed by original monotypy.

COMPOSITION AND DISTRIBUTION. — Two species with multiple subspecies, distributed in South America. One subspecies from Central America known only from the literature.