Ethusa evae Müller & Collins, 1991

Ethusa evae Müller & Collins, 1991: 66, fig. 3h, pl. 4, figs 1, 2. — Pálfy et al. 2008: Catalogue. — De Angeli et al. 2010: 176. — Schweitzer et al. 2010: 80; 2021: 3. — Baldanza et al. 2017: 52. — Beschin et al. 2019: table 1. — Sasaki 2019: 7814. — Van Bakel et al. 2020: fig. 10.15.

REMARKS

Ethusa evae, from the Upper Eocene (Priabonian), Hungary, has a subsquare carapace, well-developed outer orbital spines and fairly wide orbits. These characters are not typical of either Ethusa or an ethusid and we agree with Müller & Collins (1991: 67) that the outline of E. evae is somewhat reminiscent of Binkhorstia ubaghsi (Van Binkhorst, 1857) from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian). The identification of this species, in any case not a dorippoid, should be carefully reconsidered.