Latreillia metanesa Williams, 1982

Castro, Peter & Naruse, Tohru, 2014, New species of Latreillopsis Henderson, 1888 (Brachyura: Homolidae) and Neopalicus Moosa & Serène, 1981 (Brachyura: Palicidae) from the Hawaiian Islands, Zootaxa 3764 (2), pp. 169-180 : 175

Latreillia metanesa Williams, 1982

Latreillia metanesa Williams, 1982: 240 , figs 3d, 4, 5a, d, 8.— Castro et al. 2003: 605 [in key], 613, 628, 629, figs 3C, 6–9, 14A–C.

Material examined. Male 8.4 × 5.1 mm, off southwestern Maui , dredged, 91 m (300 ft), Mike Severns & Shirley Speer coll., 26.10.2112 ( ZRC) .

Remarks. Latreillia metanesa was described from material collected in 1902 by the Albatross in the Hawaiian Islands, the holotype dredged off Puniawa Point, northern Maui (Williams 1982: 240). There have been no other records from the Hawaiian Islands since then except for additional 1902 Albatross material ( Castro et al. 2003: 616; Castro 2011: 36). The present specimen is the first of the species to be recorded from the archipelago for more than a century. The species is known from across the Indo-West Pacific and the Sala y Gómez submarine ridge, southeastern Pacific off Chile ( Castro et al. 2003: fig. 9) from depths of 22– 806 m. It was also collected from a station that dredged material from 300–905 m in French Polynesia (Castro, unpublished).