Eupines deformis (Sharp, 1874)

Fig. 14

Bryaxis deformis Sharp, 1874: 499 .

Bryaxis deformis: reprint from Sharp 1874 by Sharp 1876: 277.

Bryaxis deformis: reprinted excerpt from Sharp1874 by Broun 1880: 130.

Eupines (Byraxis) deformis: combination and subgeneric assignment by Raffray 1904: 208. Raffray 1911: 83, 1924: 157; Hudson 1923: 364, 1934: 182; Nomura and Leschen 2006: 254; Maddison 2010: 417; Shen and Leschen 2019: 263.

Type locality: New Zealand .

Type depository: BMNH HT ♀ .

Comments: Sharp (1874) described E. deformis from a single female with strangely bent protibiae and mesotibiae that, at first, he regarded were deformed. He later concluded that the tibiae were natural, and it was a valid species resembling E. dispar .