Harpilius consobrinus De Man, 1902 Harpilius lutescens — De Man, 1888: 536, pl. 22a fig. 1. Harpilius consobrinus De Man, 1902: 836 –840, pl. 26, fig. 54. Borradaile, 1917: 380 –381. Periclimenes consobrinus — Bruce, 1972: 403, 409, 412 (key), fig. 1b. — Holthuis, 1981: 795 – 796, fig. 3 I –l. — Chace and Bruce, 1993: 107. — Li, 2000: 170 –171, fig. 211. — Li and Liu, 2004: 93. Type material. 6 syntypes (2 ovig.), SMF­8531. Type locality. Ternate, Moluccan Islands, Indonesia. Host. Associated with Pocillopora spp., including Pocillopora damicornis (Bruce, 1976a). Distribution. Also known from Kenya, Tanganyika, Comoro Islands, Réunion, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Philippines, Western Australia, and Queensland. Remarks. Originally described as a Harpilius, this species was placed in Periclimenes by Holthuis (1952) as a synonym of P. lutescens. It now reverts to its original name. A colour illustration is provided by Bruce (1975, p.26 fig. 16) and a figure of the ambulatory dactyl by Bruce (1976b: 54, fig. 14F). The identity of the “ Periclimenes consobrinus ” specimens reported from the Red Sea by Balss (1915) is discussed by Bruce (1992a): none are referable to H. consobrinus (De Man). Other specimens in the older literature may be under the name of Periclimenes lutescens.

Published as part of Bruce, A. J., 2004, A partial revision of the genus Periclimenes Costa, 1884 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae), pp. 1-26 in Zootaxa 582 on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.157391