Hoplochlora brevifissa, Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878: 178 - 179

Hollier, John & Maehr, Michael, D., 2012, An annotated catalogue of the type material of Orthoptera (Insecta) described by Carl Brunner von Wattenwyl deposited in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle in Geneva, Revue suisse de Zoologie 119 (1), pp. 27-75 : 35

brevifissa Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878: 178-179 , fig. 50 [Holochlora].

Ceylon (Mus. Genf). Unspecified number of ♁ and ♀ .

One ♁, possibly a syntype, with labels: “ Ile Maurice, 602 97” [number handwritten, locality printed on white paper]; “Holochlora brevifissa Br. ” [handwritten on yellow paper]; “Cette détermination est évidemment fausse. La forme des lobes du dernier segment dorsal et l’incision arrondie de la plaque sous-genitale ainsi que les styli cylindrique s’applique parfaitement à Holochl. biloba Stål ♁. Br. add. Monog. Phan. 91, 31, 4” [handwritten on yellow paper (by Jean Carl, former curator of arthropods at the MHNG?)]. The species name label in the insect box has the locality “Ceylon” written in the lower left corner. Specimen set with wings spread; most of the left antenna and the tarsi of the right front leg are missing. Although the original description gave Geneva as the depository, this specimen is apparently not from Sri Lanka, and the measurements do not exactly match those of the description. According to OSF there are syntypes of H. brevifissa in the Staatlichts Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart ( SMNS), and it seems likely that the specimen in MHNG is not a type, but that the depository reference in the description is a lapse. This being the case, it is unclear why the species name label in the MHNG collection has the type locality written on it. Images on OSF. Box B 16 .

Hoplochlora brevifissa Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1878 .