Aegla humahuaca Schmitt, 1942

Bond-Buckup, Georgina, Jara, Carlos G., Buckup, Ludwig, Bueno, Alessandra A. P., Pérez-Losada, Marcos & Crandall, Keith A., 2010, Description of a new species of Aeglidae, and new records of related species from river basins in Argentina (Crustacea, Anomura), Zootaxa 2343, pp. 18-30 : 22-23

Aegla humahuaca Schmitt, 1942

Diagnosis. Anterolateral spine of carapace not reaching base of cornea; protogastric lobes absent; rostrum short, strongly deflected; rostrum carinate along its entire length; front narrow; proximal outer margin of moveable finger of cheliped without lobe; fingers of cheliped without lobular tooth; palmar crest of cheliped little developed, rectangular, short; inner margin of ventral face of ischium of cheliped with one anterior conical spine and up to four tubercles; dorsal margin of merus of second pereiopod with scale-shaped tubercles. (Modified from Bond-Buckup & Buckup 1994.)

New records. ARGENTINA: Province of Tucumán: River near to San Pedro de Colalao. 26º14'27"S, 65º 9'35"W; 1118m, 09.xii.2001 (UFRGS 3230, 4M, 1F); Loc.Rio Noque, La Cascada, La sala Sr. Javier, FML 0 0 150 (together with A. platensis ); Provínce of Catamarca: Loc. Junca-Suma, River Potrero, xi.1967 (FML s/ n). Former distribution. ARGENTINA: Central and southern Province of Jujuy, northwestern, central, and southern Salta, northern and central Tucumán, northwestern Santiago del Estero ( Bond-Buckup & Buckup 1994).

Present distribution. ARGENTINA: Parana River system - Bermejo, Dulce, Juramento, and Grande rivers - central and southern Jujuy, northwestern, central, and southern Salta, northern and central Tucumán, western Catamarca, northwestern Santiago del Estero.

Remarks. The localities in the drainage basins of Tucumán and Catamarca provinces are new records, and broaden the geographical distribution of A. humahuaca ..