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A study is carried out on the reliability of the morphological characters attributed to Pseudopachymerina grata (Terán, 1990) for its differentiation from Pseudopachymerina spinipes (Erichson, 1833) species concluding that, given the great variability of characters such as the female pigidian spot pattern or the number of denticles of the pecten of the metafemur, these characters are not valid to differentiate both species. The male's genitalia is the only character that allows the two species to be safely differentiated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]