Macrobrachium latidactylus was recorded from Patani river, southern Thailand
by Kemp (1918a) and Suvatti (1937) as Palaemon lampropus De Man, 1892, a name
that was synonymized with M. latidactylus by Holthuis (1950). Naiyanetr (1998:
32) also listed the species from Ko Kud, Trat, Eastern Thailand.