Genus Parobisium Chamberlin 1930

Neobisium (Parobisium) Chamberlin 1930: 17; Beier 1932: 84; Morikawa 1960: 112–113; Hoff 1961: 427.

Parobisium Chamberlin: Chamberlin and Malcolm 1960: 112–113; Chamberlin 1962: 123; Harvey 1991: 394; Mahnert 2003: 744–745.

Type species: Neobisium (Parobisium) magnum Chamberlin, 1930, by original designation.

Remarks. Parobisium is characterized by the absence of a galea on the movable cheliceral finger, the fixed chelal finger with a compact subterminal cluster of only three tactile setae (et, it, est), and a more diffuse subbasal to basal cluster of five tactile setae (isb, ist, ib, esb, eb) (Chamberlin 1962).