Genus Paraphaenocladius Thienemann, 1924

One named species, P. exagitans Johannsen, 1905, has been recorded from Costa Rica and Guatemala (Sublette & Sasa 1994; Saether & Wang 1995). The latter authors suggest that all South American records of the genus likely belong to the subspecies P. e. longipes Saether & Wang, 1995 . Larval habitats vary from terrestrial to lentic and lotic aquatic habitats (Andersen et al. 2013).