Gonatista cubensis, Saussure, 1869

Pfäuti, Patrice & Hollier, John, 2012, Additions to the catalogue of mantid type material deposited in the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève (Insecta: Mantodea), Revue suisse de Zoologie 119 (3), pp. 261-267 : 263

cubensis Saussure, 1869 [Gonatista] .

Four ♂, two ♀ and one specimen of unspecified sex (♀?) are probably syntypes (box 6). Two ♂ and one ♀ labelled: "[sex] Cuba M. H. de Saussure " , two ♂ and one ♀ labelled: "[sex] Cuba (Mr.) Poey " and the unspecified specimen: "75-2 ♀ = 5-23 Gonatista cubensis Sauss. " Each specimen has also a label " Gonatista grisea Fabr. " (green paper). All labels are handwritten. G. cubensis is now considered a junior synonym of G. reticulata (Thunberg, 1815) , but Saussure & Zehntner (1894) placed it in synonymy with G. grisea (Fabricius, 1793) , hence the identification labels.