Abstract
True freshwater brachyuran crabs account for about 1300 species worldwide. There are two families of true freshwater crabs in the neotropics: Trichodactylidae and Pseudothelphusidae. Currently, pseudothelphusids comprise 40 genera and about 280 species and subspecies in 2 subfamilies and 5 tribes. The tribe Kingsleyini Bott, 1970, includes about 50 species and subspecies in 12 genera, who…