Gryllotalpa Latreille, 1802

Sperber, Carlos Frankl, 2017, The type material of Gryllotalpidae Leach, 1815 (Insecta: Orthoptera: Ensifera) deposited in the Orthoptera collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia (ANSP): an updated checklist, Zootaxa 4318 (3), pp. 499-519 : 500

Genus Gryllotalpa Latreille, 1802

1. Gryllotalpa cultriger Uhler, 1864 Holotype ♂ ( Fig.1 )

Label data: Gryllotalpa cultriger Uhler. El Paso. ♂; S.H.Scudder Coll.; Type 8908 (on red). Conservation status: Poor condition. Specimen glued on the pin; left antenna missing; head and pronotum with drops of glue; right and fore leg, middle and hind tarsus missing; remnants of fungi on the specimen. Specimen locality: United States of America, Texas, El Paso. Additional notes: none. Mentions of the specimen in literature: Uhler (1864).

2. Gryllotalpa africana africana Palisot de Beauvois, 1805 Lectotype ♂ ( Fig.2 )

Label data: Gryllotalpa africana Beauvois det. B. C. Townsend, 1980; Gryllotalpa fossor Scudder Lectotype det. B.C. Townsend 1982; Type 8909 (on red); Gryll. fossor . ♂; Lectotype; S.H. Scudder Coll.; Schaum’s Collection. Conservation status: Poor condition. Specimen glued on the pin; antennae and middle tarsus missing; right hind leg and left hind femur broken missing at the apex; tegmina and wings (in dorsal view) are ripped and with holes; remnants of fungi on the specimen. Specimen locality: South Africa. Additional notes: Junior synonym of Gryllotalpa africana Palisot de Beauvois, 1805 . Mentions of the specimen in literature: Townsend (1983).

3. Gryllotalpa africana africana Palisot de Beauvois, 1805 Paralectotype ♀ ( Fig.3 )

Label data: Gryll. fossor ♀; Murray; Gryllotalpa fossor Scudder Paralectotype det. B.C. Townsend, 1982; Gryllotalpa sp. det. B.C. Townsend, 1982; Type 8902 (on red); S.H. Scudder Coll.; Paralectotype. Conservation status: Poor condition. Right antenna broken; pronotum and abdomen glued together; hind tarsus broken; left middle leg and hind tarsus missing; tegmina and wings (in dorsal view) are ripped and with holes; remnants of fungi on the specimen. Specimen locality: South Africa. Additional notes: Junior synonym of Gryllotalpa fossor Scudder, 1869 . Mentions of the specimen in literature: Townsend (1983) does not mention this specimen.

4. Gryllotalpa major Saussure, 1874 Holotype ♀ ( Fig. 4 )

Label data: Gryllotalpa ponderosa type Bruner Det. by L. Bruner; Gryllotalpa major Sauss Det Hebard 1930 Hebard Collection; Gryllotalpa ponderosa H201 Type (on red); Labette Co Kas Dr. W.S. Newlon. Conservation status: Poor conservation. Head missing; pronotum cracked (dorsal and lateral view); right fore leg, middle legs and left hind leg missing; right hind left broken at the apex; tegmina and wings damaged. Specimen locality: United States of America, Labette County, Kansas. Additional notes: Junior synonym: Gryllotalpa ponderosa Bruner, 1886 . Hollier et.al. (2013) indicated that one male syntype of the senior synonym G. major is housed in the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Genève (MHNG). Mentions of the specimen in literature: Bruner 1886 and Rehn & Hebard (1912).

Figures

FIGURE 1. HOlOtype male: Gryllotalpa cultriger Uhler, 1864 (A) habitus right lateral view, (B) habitus dOrsal view, (C) habitus left lateral view, (D) cOmpOund eyes, Ocelli and antenna in frOntal view, (E) left fOre leg and (F) labels. Scale bar = 0.5 cm.

FIGURE 2. Gryllotalpa africana africana PalisOt de BeauvOis, 1805: LectOtype Of Gryllotalpa fossor Scudder 1869 (A) habitus right lateral view, (B) habitus dOrsal view, (C) habitus left lateral view, (D) cOmpOund eyes, Ocelli and missing antenna in frOntal view, (E) left fOre leg and (F) labels. Scale bar = 0.5 cm.

FIGURE 3. Gryllotalpa africana africana PalisOt de BeauvOis, 1805: ParalectOtype Of Gryllotalpa fossor Scudder, 1869 (A) habitus right lateral view, (B) habitus dOrsal view, (C) habitus left lateral view, (D) cOmpOund eyes, Ocelli and antenna in frOntal view, (E) left fOre leg and (F) labels. Scale bar = 0.5 cm.

FIGURE 4. Gryllotalpa major Saussure, 1874: HOlOtype Gryllotalpa ponderosa Bruner, 1886 (A) habitus right lateral view, (B) habitus dOrsal view, (C) habitus left lateral view, (D) left fOre leg in lateral view, (E) left fOre leg and (F) labels. Scale bar = 0.5 cm.