Elaeochlora longispina, Pictet & Saussure, 1887: 345 - 346

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 : 372-373

longispina Pictet & Saussure, 1887: 345-346 [ELaeochLora].

Andes de la Nouvelle Grenade. Unspecified number of Ƌ and ♀ .

Possible ♀ syntype with labels: “ Pérou ” [handwritten on white paper]; “Elaeoch. longispina Sss. et Pict. ” [handwritten on green paper]; “Possible syntype? Hollier 2010 ” [handwritten on red paper]. The species name label in the insect box has the locality “Andes du Pérou ” handwritten in the lower left corner. Specimen lacks the tarsi of right front leg. Roberts & Carbonell (1992: 91) state that the types could not be found, assuming that when the original description gave the type locality this meant Colombia or Venezuela (Carbonell in litt.). It is possible however, that “Nouvelle Grenade ” was less precisely defined by Pictet & Saussure at the time of the description than it was by Roberts & Carbonell and that this Andean specimen is a syntype. Images on OSF. Box Z4.

ELaeochLora Longispina Pictet & Saussure, 1887 (nomen dubium on OSF).