Austruca variegata ( Heller, 1862 ), 2019

Shih, Hsi-Te, Prema, Mani, Kumar, Austin Anand Jeya, Saher, Noor Us, Ravichandran, Samuthirapandian, Odhano, Sahir & Paulay, Gustav, 2022, Fig. 9 in Fig. 1 in Fig. 20. A-E in Establishment of A New Bornean Genus of Gecarcinucidae (Crustacea: Brachyura), with Descriptions of Five New Species., Zoological Studies 61 (65), pp. 1-18 : 8

Austruca variegata ( Heller, 1862)

Gelasimus variegatus Heller, 1862: 521 (type locality: Madras, India); Kingsley 1880: 154; Crane 1975: 326.

Gelasimus perplexus – Heller 1865: 38, pl. 5(4); A. Milne-Edwards 1873: 274.

Uca triangularis – Kappalli et al. 2012: 967; Supriya et al. 2017: 647.

Uca (Celuca) triangularis bengali Crane 1975: 286 , figs. 24I, J, 32N, O, 59A, 68C, 101 [part].

Austruca bengali – Shih et al. 2016: 153 [part]; Trivedi et al. 2018: 54.

Austruca triangularis – Trivedi et al. 2018: 54 [part].

Cranuca inversa – Trivedi et al. 2018: 54.

Austruca variegata – Sasaki 2019: 12442; Shih et al. 2019: 4, figs. 1a–c, 2, 3a, b, 4a–d, 5a–d, 6a–c, f, 7a, b, e, 8a–d, 9.

Material examined: Lectotype, ò ( CW 16.7 mm, PL 24.7 mm) ( NHMW 25656 ; original Novara label, #74 = AN.1866. II.74.; labeled as “ Gelasimus perplexus M. Edw. ”), Madras, India, coll. Johann Zelebor.

Distribution: Southwestern and eastern India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

Remarks: Austruca variegata ranges mostly along the Bay of Bengal. This species has been frequently misidentified, as A. bengali , A. perplexa , A. triangularis and Cranuca inversa (see Shih et al. 2019). Shih et al. (2019) resurrected this species with morphological and molecular evidence. Although no specimens from western Indian were examined for our study, this species is recorded from the area by Kappalli et al. (2012) and Supriya et al. (2017) as “ Uca triangularis ”, and its distribution appears to extend to the Laccadive Sea ( Shih et al. 2019).