Abstract

A new species of Lipkemera Davie, 2010 collected by tangle nets in the islands of Balicasag and Panglao, central Philippines, is described. Lipkemera holthuisi sp. nov., is closely allied to L. acutidens , but can be distinguished from it and other congeners by the characters of its carapace, pereopods, male abdomen, male gonopods and by its live coloration. The new species is only the second species of the genus to be reported from the Philippines, and brings to four the total number of species known. Davie (2010) recently established the replacement name Lipkemera for Meriola Davie, 1993, which was a junior homonym of Meriola Banks, 1895, a genus of spider. The discovery of this new Lipkemera species brings to four the total number of species known for this genus. It is also the second species, after L. coralline , to be reported from the Bohol Sea. Keywords: Lipkemera holthuisi ; Lipkemera Davie

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