Ihlopsis tirardi Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1995

Forges, Bertrand Richer De & Ng, Peter K. L., 2008, New western Pacific records of Homolidae De Haan, 1839, with descriptions of new species of Homolochunia Doflein, 1904, and Latreillopsis Henderson, 1888 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), Zootaxa 1967, pp. 1-35 : 17

Ihlopsis tirardi Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1995

( Fig. 13A, B)

Latreillopsis aff. multispinosa Guinot & Richer de Forges 1981: 556 , fig. 4G, 6B, pl. 7, fig. 2. — Guinot & Richer de

Forges 1995: 12, fig. 1a–b.? Latreillopsis multispinosa — Nagai 1991: 31, pl. 1, fig. 3. Ihlopsis tirardi Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1995: 425 , fig. 46A–B, 47c–f, 48A–B. — Cleva et al. 2007: 252, fig. 20B. —

Ng et al. 2008: 40.

Material examined. New Caledonia: CONCALIS, stn. DW 3025, 18°56.61’S 163°23.16’E, 396–400 m, 9 May 2008: 1 male (23.8 x 14.7 mm) ( MNHN-B31293 ) .— Stn. DW 2984, 18°00.24’S 163°03.43’E, 450–509 m, 5 May 2008: 1 ovigerous female (22.7 x 15.0 mm) ( ZRC 2008.0987 ) .

Remarks. There are only two species in this genus, I. multispinosa ( Ihle, 1912) from Indonesia and I. tirardi Guinot & Richer de Forges, 1995 , from New Caledonia. This latter species has also been recorded from Japan ( Nagai 1991). The present record of I. tirardi is the first from northern New Caledonia. Its bathymetric range is deeper than I. multispinosa , 396 to 650 m ( Guinot & Richer de Forges 1995).