Boscia gracilipes A. Milne-Edwards, 1866

Magalhães, Célio & Wehrtmann, Ingo S., 2025, Taxonomic revision and distribution of the freshwater crabs of the family Pseudothelphusidae (Decapoda, Brachyura) from Guatemala, with the descriptions of two new species and keys to the species of all genera, Zoosystema 47 (26), pp. 581-615 : 607-608

Boscia gracilipes A. Milne-Edwards, 1866

( Figs 12B; 17)

Boscia gracilipes A. Milne-Edwards, 1866: 204 . — Smith 1870: 146 (in list). — Guinot 1988: 14.

Potamocarcinus gracilipes – Ortmann 1897: 318 (in list).

Pseudothelphusa gracilipes – Pocock 1889: 10 (in list). — Rathbun 1898: 510 (in key), 513, 534, and 537 (in list); 1904: 242 (in list); 1905: 280, text-fig. 79, pl. 13 fig. 2; 1906: 501 (in list). — Young 1900: 212. — Coifmann 1939: 108 (in list).

TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Holotype. Guatemala • ♀, dry; Alta Verapaz, exact location and date unknown; M. Bocourt leg.; Expédition du Mexique, 1864-1866; MNHN Entry 191-1866; MNHN-IU-2000-4040 (= MNHN-B4040 ).

REMARKS

Rodríguez (1982) found the holotype of this species to be very similar to Ph. acanthophallus , except for a slight difference in the length/width ratio of the cheliped merus. As the type locality of both species is in the department of Alta Verapaz, the possibility that they are synonymous is quite reasonable. However, the validity of B. gracilipes cannot be ruled out since the exact collecting place of the holotype is unknown (the distribution record in the Fig. 17 is roughly represented in the center of the department: approximately 15°39’20”N, 90°06’22”W).