Genus Arcturina Koehler, 1911

Diagnosis. Body strongly bent between pereonites 4 and 5. Mouth-parts and pereopod 1 concealed in buccal chamber. Head and pereonites 1–4 together forming diamond-shaped dorsally in female (cylindrical in male). Pereopod 1 with well-developed unguis. Pleonites with three segments in advance of telson, segment 3 and telson indistinctly separated.

Remarks. There are eight species of Arcturina (Poore & Schotte 2009; present study), three of which occur in Asia (Bamber 2008; Nunomura 2008; present study), with four species being recorded from Africa (Koehler 1911; Barnard 1925; Barnard 1957; Kensley 1975), and one species from India (Pillai 1963).