Gelastorhinus edax, Saussure, 1861 a: 161

Hollier, John, 2012, An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Henri de Saussure, with an account of the primary type material housed in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève, Part 3: The Acridoidea excluding the Acrididae: Oedipodinae, Revue suisse de Zoologie 119 (3), pp. 303-339 : 316

edax Saussure, 1861a: 161 [ Pezotettix ].

Carolina. Unspecified number of Ƌ and ♀.

There are no specimens under this name in the MHNG collection. The type series may be amongst the specimens from Carolina placed under Melanoplus bivattatus (Say) in Box Z61 but cannot be positively identified. P. edax was synonymised with M. bivittatus by Kirby (1910: 531) and the name does not appear on OSF.

A junior synonym of Melanoplus bivittatus (Say, 1825) .