original description
Devi, S. L. (1982). Bopyrid parasites of prawns at Kakinada. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India.</em> 24: 23-32. [details] Available for editors 
basis of record
Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25]. [details]
new combination reference
An, J., C. B. Boyko & X. Li. (2014). Review of the parasitic genus <i>Epipenaeon</i> Nobili, 1906 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Bopyridae), with new records and redescription of four species from China. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 48(33–34): 2027–2048. [details] Available for editors 
From editor or global species database
ecology Hosts : Parapenaeopsis sculptilis; P. stylifera; Metapenaeopsis barbata; Bay of Bengal, on Parapenaeus longipes (Bourdon, 1979); Madagascar, on Parapenaeus longipes (Bourdon, 1979); Indonesia, on Parapenaeus longipes (Markham, 1994). [details]
type locality India [details]