Redescriptions of the Australian majid spider crabs Leptomithrax gaimardii (H. Milne Edwards) and Paramithrax barbicornis (Latreille)

Abstract

Paramithrax gaimardii H. Milne Edwards, 1834, fioni photographs of the holotypc. is redescribcd and figured It is regarded as a species of Leptomithrax A-licrs, 1876, cons]5ecifie with L. australiensis Miers, 1876, and /.. spinulosus Haswell, 1880. Paramithrax barbicornis (Latreille, 1825) ^^ also redescrijjcd and figured and is considered synonymous with Gonatorhynchiis iumidus Has\vell, 1880, following Balss (i92()). This species ^vas designated as the type of the genus Paramillirax H. Milne TMwards, 1834, by Desmarest (1858) and the genus Gonatorhynchus Haswell, 1880, is consequently reduced to synonymy with Paramithrax