Discorsobopyrus Boyko, 2004

An, Jianmei, Boyko, Christopher B. & Li, Xinzheng, 2015, A Review Of Bopyrids (Crustacea: Isopoda: Bopyridae) Parasitic On Caridean Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea) From China, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2015 (399), pp. 1-85 : 46

Discorsobopyrus Boyko, 2004

DIAGNOSIS (after Boyko, 2004): Female: body ovate, one side of pereon slightly longer than other; head triangular, weakly produced with narrow frontal lamina. Antennae and antennules reduced to single segment each. Maxilliped with stout, distally rounded spur; palp lacking. Oostegite 1 proximal lobe ovate, distal lobe subtriangular, internal ridge smooth. Pereon composed of seven pereomeres, broadest across third pereomere. Coxal plates well developed on both sides, all elongate. Dorsolateral bosses well developed on some pereomeres, indistinct on others. Tergal projections lacking. Oostegites nearly completely enclosing marsupium. Basis of all pereopods bearing pronounced rounded medial boss; propodus with cup for insertion of dactylus. Pleon with five pleomeres plus pleotelson; first through fifth pleomeres with uniramous elongate pleopods and uniramous, short subquadrate lateral plates (some indistinct); edges and surfaces of all lateral plates smooth; pleopods smooth, uropods lacking.

Male: Head ovate, fused with first segment of pereon. Body shape elongate ; fourth pereomere broadest; first three directed slightly anterolaterally, fourth through sixth laterally directed, seventh directed slightly posterolaterally. Posterior pereopods slightly larger. Pleon with one segment; faint lateral indication of segmentation and tapered pleotelson tip. Midventral tubercles on second to seventh pereomeres, pleopods and uropods lacking.

TYPE SPECIES: Bopyrus stebbingi Nierstrasz and Brender à Brandis, 1923, by original designation.

OTHER SPECIES: None.