Eusthenes jason Stål, 1870
comment:
E. jason appears as a synonym of
E.
robustus in the Rolston & al. catalog, according to
Yang, 1935.
This synonymy has been overlooked by Blöte (1945), which cataloged
it as a separate species from
E. robustus. The types of
E.
jason visible in RMNH, here under presented, show
differences which allow to doubt of the validity of Yang's
synonymy. For example, the head is relatively larger in
E.
jason than in
E. robustus, the femora spines of the
male are straight for the first, curved for the other, the ♂︎
posterior tibia is straight in
E. jason curved in
E.
robustus, the shape of the females genital plates are
different, etc.. Any of these differences is in the range of
individual variation, but there are a lot of them, so the choice
has been made to present this taxon at the same level as
E.
robustus.
male
Specimen data: (type) Java (Indonesia) (©RMNH)
female
Specimen data: Java (Indonesia) (©RMNH)