Gryllacris brahmina, Pictet & Saussure, 1891: 306 - 307

Hollier, John, 2011, An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Alphonse Pictet (alone, and with Henri de Saussure) with an account of the primary type material present in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle in Geneva., Revue suisse de Zoologie 118 (2), pp. 345-400 : 352

brahmina Pictet & Saussure, 1891: 306-307 , fig. 9 [ GryLLacris ].

Indes orientales. Unspecified number of ♀.

One £ syntype with labels: “ G. brahmina Pic, Ss. ” [handwritten on lined white paper]; “16, Ind. orient? Musée” [handwritten on white paper]; “ Gryllacris brahmina , ♀ P. et S.” [handwritten on yellow paper]; “ Holotypus ” [printed on red card]. Specimen set with left wings spread and right wings folded; the spread wings are rather frayed, most of both antennae, the last tarsal segment of the left front leg, the tibia and tarsi of the right front leg, the tarsi of the left middle leg, the right middle and hind legs and the tibia and tarsi of the left hind leg are all missing. This species is actually African rather than Indian, and according to the species name label in the insect box this specimen was identified as G. africana Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1888 by Griffini (a species currently placed in the genus AfrogryLLacris Karny). Box N3.

GryLLacris brahmina Pictet & Saussure, 1891 .