Amphiacusta azteca, Saussure, 1859: 316

Hollier, John, Bruckner, Harald & Heads, Sam W., 2013, 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 5: Grylloidea, Revue suisse de Zoologie 120 (3), pp. 445-535 : 457

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scientific name

Amphiacusta azteca
status

 

azteca Saussure, 1859: 316 View in CoL [ Gryllotalpa ].

Mexico. Unspecified.

One ♀ syntype with labels: “ ♀ Mexique, M H. d. Sauss.” [handwritten on ruled white card with “ Mexique ” printed]; “Gryllotal. azteca Sauss. ” [handwritten on green paper]; “ Syntypus ” [printed on red paper]. Specimen set with wings folded; most of both antennae and the last tarsal segment of the right hind leg are missing. A specimen much damaged by insect feeding may be a second syntype, but the other material placed under this name in the MHNG collection is not from Mexico, and mainly collected after the publication of the description. Box A2.

A junior synonym of Neocurtilla hexadactyla (Perty, 1832) .

SAUSSURE, H. DE 1859. Orthoptera Nova Americana. Revue et Magazine de Zoologie 11: 201 - 212, 315 - 317, 390 - 394.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Phalangopsidae

Genus

Amphiacusta