Affiliations 

  • 1 Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum; Faculty of Science; National University of Singapore; 2 Conservatory Drive; Singapore 117377; Republic of Singapore. peterng@nus.edu.sg
  • 2 Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense; Research Center for Biosystematics and Evolution; National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN); Jalan Raya Jakarta Bogor Km 46; Cibinong 16911; Indonesia. daisy_wowor@yahoo.com
Zootaxa, 2024 Jan 04;5397(2):218-224.
PMID: 38221209 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5397.2.3

Abstract

The gecarcinucid freshwater crab genus, Lepidothelphusa Colosi, 1920, is known only from Sarawak in northern Borneo, with six recognised species i.e. Lepidothelphusa cognettii (Nobili, 1903); L. flavochela Grinang & Ng, 2015; L. limau Grinang & Ng, 2015; L. loi Grinang & Ng, 2015; L. padawan Grinang & Ng, 2015; and L. sangon Grinang & Ng, 2015. The genus is now reported from Indonesian Borneo for the first time, from specimens recently collected from Gunung Kelam in Sintang Regency, Kalimantan Barat Province. Lepidothelphusa menneri n. sp. has a very distinctive tri-coloured pattern in life, unique among congeners. It can also easily be separated from congeners by carapace, epistome, male pleonal and male first gonopod characters.

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