Subgenus Polymegapus K. Viets, 1926

Diagnosis (after Gerecke 2003 revised). Muscle insertions sclerotized or not; I-leg-5 with S-1/-2 located at the same level and partly embracing each other; whip-like seta long and fine; I-leg-6 stout, very thick at its base, distally strongly tapering; 3–10 pairs of minute acetabula; excretory pore sclerotized; gnathosoma short and robust, palp without ventral extensions on P2 and -3, P4 sword seta strong, finger-like, inserting proximal to proximoventral seta, P5 long and slender.