Subfamily Athelginae Codreanu & Codreanu, 1956

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Introduction

Members of this subfamily are mostly parasites of hermit crabs (family Diogenidae) but one example is known from a lithodid king crab (Markham 1994).

Diagnosis

Female: Body nearly symmetrical; head deeply set into pereon, occasionally obliterating centre of first pereomere; pereomeres distinct dorsally; brood pouch formed by symmetrical free oostegites of both sides; pereopods present displaced to dorsal surface; 5 pleomeres more or less fused, with or without lateral plates; 4 or 5 pairs of pleopods, biramous; uropods variously developed. Male: Body at least twice as long as broad; head and pereomere 1 separate to fully fused, all other pereomeres separate; no midventral tubercles; pleon fused, without appendages.

General References

Codreanu, M. & Codreanu, R. 1956. Un epicarid abdominal nou pentru Marea Neagra, Anisarthrus pelseneeri Giard 1907, parazit pe creveta Athanas nitescens Leach. Revizuirea si raspindirea genului Anisarthrus. Buletin Stiintific. Academia Republicii Populare Romîne. Sectia de Biologie si Stiinte Agricole 8: 567-584

Markham, J.C. 1994. Crustacea Isopoda: Bopyridae in the MUSORSTOM collections from the tropical Indo-Pacific. I. Subfamiles Pseudioninae (in part), Argeiinae, Orbioninae, Athelginae and Entophilinae. Chapter 6. pp. 225-253 in Crosnier, A. Résultats des Compagnes MUSORSTOM, vol. 12. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 161

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