robustus (Picromerus) Distant 1879: 48. [Figs 170–171] Original data: “ ♂ ♀ ”; “ Sadia [“north of Brahmaputra”], 350 feet.” “collected by Mr. A. W. Chennell, of the Indian Topographical Survey”. [syntypes (male and female)] SYNTYPE ♂: blue-margined syntype disc; red-margined type [H. T.] disc; “Sadia 350 ft. (Chennell)”; “robustus (type) Dist. [Distant’s handwriting]”; “Distant Coll. 1911–383.”; “NHMUK 010592160”. Fourth and fifth right and left antennomeres, anterior legs, and posterior legs missing (Fig. 170). SYNTYPE ♀: blue-margined syntype disc; “Sadia 350 ft. (Chennell)”; “Distant Coll. 1911–383.”; “NHMUK 010592162”. Right antenna, fourth and fifth left antennomeres, right middle and posterior legs, and left anterior and posterior legs missing (Fig. 171). Current status: Eocanthecona robusta (Distant, 1879) (see Thomas 1994: 177). Note: Thomas (1994: 177) did not mention having examined types, only “[d]etermined specimens in BM(NH).”

Published as part of Roell, Talita, Lemaître, Valérie A., Webb, Michael D. & Campos, Luiz A., 2023, An annotated and illustrated Type Catalogue of the predacious Shieldbugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae) in the Collection of the Natural History Museum, London, pp. 1-105 in Zootaxa 5232 (1) on page 75, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5232.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7609794