Drotops armatus

Order Phacopida / Suborder Phacopina / Superfamily Phacopoidea / Family Phacopidae

Drot, in memory of Jeannine Drot; ops, Greek, eye

armatus, Latin, armed, referring to the strong spines on the dorsal shield, and also alluding to the similarity of its spine arrangement to that of Burmeisterella armata (Burmeister, 1843)

Compared with the type species Drotops megalomanicus, this species has vertical conical short spines on the posterior cephalic margin, thoracic axis and pleurae, and pygidial axis and pleural region, generally with two rows of short spines on the axis and on each pleural lobe, though sometimes irregularly arranged.