Paratropis Simon, 1889 Figs 2, 3, 4

Type species.

Paratropis scruposa Simon, 1889.

Diagnosis.

Paratropis differs from other paratropidids by the combination of the following characters: presence of ITC on legs I, two pairs of spinnerets (PMS and PLS) (Figs 2B, 3B, 4B), males without tibial apophysis, and palpal bulb with embolus relatively straight, thin and very elongated (Figs 2E, F, 4F, G); females with spermathecal receptacles with multilobed fundus (Figs 2H, 3D).

Included species.

Paratropis elicioi Dupérré, 2015, Paratropis florezi Perafán, Galvis & Pérez-Miles, sp. n., Paratropis papilligera FO Pickard-Cambridge, 1896, Paratropis sanguinea Mello-Leitão, 1923, Paratropis scruposa Simon, 1889, Paratropis seminermis Caporiacco, 1955, Paratropis tuxtlensis Valdez-Mondragón, Mendoza & Francke, 2014.

Distribution.

Mexico, Lesser Antilles, and northern South America (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela). In Colombia it is widely distributed in the three mountain ranges that make up the Andes, the inter-Andean valleys and lowlands of the Amazon, Llanos, and Caribbean regions ( Perafán 2017) (Figure 10).