Black and white photograph of a furry species of Paragaleodes
Paragaleodes salaris is a species in this genus

Paragaleodes is a genus of galeodid camel spiders (solifuges), first described by Karl Kraepelin in 1899.

Species

As of February 2023[update], the World Solifugae Catalog accepts the following twelve species:

  • Paragaleodes erlangeri Kraepelin, 1903 — Ethiopia
  • Paragaleodes fulvipes Birula, 1905 — Iran, Israel
  • Paragaleodes judaicus Kraepelin, 1899 — Israel, Syria
  • Paragaleodes melanopygus Birula, 1905 — Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan
  • Paragaleodes nesterovi Birula, 1916 — Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq
  • Paragaleodes occidentalis (Simon, 1885) — Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco
  • Paragaleodes pallidus (Birula, 1890) — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
  • Paragaleodes scalaris (C.L. Koch, 1842) — Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Turkmenistan, Yemen
  • Paragaleodes sericeus Kraepelin, 1899 — Egypt
  • Paragaleodes spinifer Birula, 1938 — Tajikistan or Uzbekistan
  • Paragaleodes tunetanus Kraepelin, 1899 — Tunisia
  • Paragaleodes unicolor (Birula, 1905) — Iran, Israel