Urnalana haematosticta (White, 1847)

Arzivian, Arteen, Alrubaie, Ahmad, Yang, Jessica, Lin, Huiyu, Zhang, Eva & Leong, Rupert, 2022, Crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda) from the Seas of East and Southeast Asia Collected by the RV Hakuhō Maru (KH- 72 - 1 Cruise) 4. South China Sea, Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series A, Zoology 48 (4), pp. 147-191 : 184

Urnalana haematosticta (White, 1847)

Material examined. RV Hakuhō Maru KH-73-2 cruise, sta. 41 (southeast of Hong Kong, 22°15.3′N, 115°28.2′E to 22°15.7′N, 115°28.9′E, 55 m depth), 3 m beam trawl, 18 March, 1973, 1Ə ( CB 10.5 ×CL 11.0 mm) , NSMT-Cr 30946.

Remarks. The male at hand has been preserved in 75% ethanol for almost 50 years, but brick red specks are clearly preserved on the carapace and chelipeds. The dispersed pattern of the specks of good and variable sizes agrees with the colored figure given by Adams and White (1849: pl. 12 fig. 2) and the line drawing by Ovaere (1987: fig. 1A), differing from the pattern of U. parahaematosticta Galil, 2005 , in which the smaller spots are crowded at the carapace submedian, anterolateral and posterolateral parts, without larger spots on the chelipeds. The color pattern of this species was also cleary shown by Poore et al. (2008).

Low et al. (2020) noted that the original description of this species should be referred to Adams (1847) who wrote the brief notes on the coloration of Leucosia haematosticta prior to the publication of Adams and White (1849).