Frodromia, McLay, 1993

Guinot, Danièle & Quenette, Gwenaël, 2005, The spermatheca in podotreme crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata) and its phylogenetic implications, Zoosystema 27 (2), pp. 267-342 : 290

Frodromia ? atypica (Sakai, 1936)

Ovigerous female 10.6 × 9.9 mm, New Caledonia, Halipro 1, stn CP 868, McLay det. 1995 (MNHN-B 26360). The specific identification needs to be confirmed.

The bulb of the spermatheca is inflated, markedly calcified, and the chamber is small ( Fig. 12B ). Despite the shortness of suture 7/8, there is a tube, which is very narrow and oblique. This arrangement is therefore similar to that of the Dromiinae .

Figures

FIG. 12. — Frodromia? atypica (Sakai, 1936), ovigerous female 10.6 × 9.9 mm, New Caledonia, McLay det. (MNHN-B 26360); A, thoracic sternum; B, thoracic axial skeleton, with endopleurites cut away at left to expose spermatheca. Abbreviations: a, spermathecal aperture at extremity of sternal suture 7/8; b, bulb; bo, flat bottom of the sterno-abdominal depression; br, transverse bridge; cx1, cx3, P1, P5 coxae; e4, e5, episternites 4, 5; g, female gonopore; i.p., intertagmal phragma; sr, spur on P3 coxa; s8, internal surface of sternite 8; tb, tubular process on P3 coxa; 4, 8, sternites 4, 8; 7/8, thoracic sternal suture 7/8. Scale bars: 1 mm.