Rhammatocerus viatorius, Saussure, 1861 a: 317 - 318

Hollier, John, 2012, An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Henri de Saussure, with an account of the primary type material housed in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève, Part 3: The Acridoidea excluding the Acrididae: Oedipodinae, Revue suisse de Zoologie 119 (3), pp. 303-339 : 335

viatorius Saussure, 1861a: 317-318 [ Stenobothrus ].

In tota Mexico. Unspecified (gregarious behaviour mentioned).

Lectotype Ƌ (designated by Otte, 1981: 247) with labels: “Plectrophorus viatorius Sauss. , type!” [handwritten on green paper]; “Scyllina viatoria Sss., type Ƌ” [handwritten on green paper]; “Scyllina viatoria Sauss., Hololectotypus [sic] Ƌ, C S Carbonell 1970” [handwritten by Carbonell on red card]; “Plectrophorus viatorius ” [handwritten on white card]. The species name label in the insect box has the locality “Amer. cent.” handwritten in the lower left corner. Specimen set with wings folded; the right antenna is missing. There are another 4 Ƌ and 8 ♀ specimens from Mexico which could be paralectotypes although not labelled as such. Images on OSF. Box U 25.

Rhammatocerus viatorius viatorius (Saussure, 1861) .