 In 1803, "C. variegatus" was moved to the "Graspus" genus and became "Graspus variegatus".In 1818, 1842 and 1852, "L. variegatus" was described again as "Grapsus personatus", "Grapsus strigilatus" and "Grapsus planifrons".In 1853, Henri Milne-Edwards erected the "Leptograpsus" genus and used "G. variegatus" as the type taxon.In his publication, Milne-Edwards recognized "G. personatus" ,"G. strigilatus and G. planifrons" to be synonyms of "L. variegatus".