Parapanope De Man, 1895 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Pilumnoidea: Galenidae): revisited and revised, with descriptions of two new species

Abstract

Abstract The taxonomy of the pilumnoid genus ParapanopeDe Man, 1895 is revisited and two new species are recognised. With a better series of specimens, more differences between the type species, P. euagoraDe Man, 1895 (from Java), and the morphologically similar P. hextii (Alcock, 1898) (from India) are documented. Specimens previously identified as P. euagora from China, Japan, and Korea are here referred to a new species, P. orientalisn. sp.; while others from Malaysia previously assigned to P. cultripes (Alcock, 1898) are here regarded as P. parvan. sp.Parapanope hextii is recorded from Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei for the first time, while P. siamensis is a new record for China. The identity of the poorly known P. pagenstecheri (Neumann, 1878) from India and its possible conspecificity with P. hextii also discussed. A key to the eight species of Parapanope now recognised is also presented.