Ripipteryx biolleyi, Saussure, 1896 a: 215

Hollier, John & Heads, Sam W., 2012, An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Henri de Saussure, with an account of the primary type specimens housed in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève, Part 1: The Tridactyloidea (Caelifera), Revue suisse de Zoologie 119 (2), pp. 149-160 : 151-152

biolleyi Saussure, 1896a: 215 [ Rhipipteryx ].

Costa Rica, San José (Biolley, in Mus. Genavense). Unspecified number of Ƌ.

The Ƌ neotype (designated by Günther, 1969: 358) is in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ( USA). The original description states that the type material is in the MHNG, but Günther (1974: 1072) concluded that the Ƌ specimen in the MHNG collection with labels: “ Costa Rica ” [handwritten on white card]; “ Rhipipteryx Biolei n. sp.?” [handwritten on white paper]; “ Rhipipteryx Biollei ” [handwritten on green paper]; “ Rhipipteryx biolleyi Sauss. Ƌ, Sauss , det. K.K. Günther 1972” [handwritten by Günther on white card with “det. K.K. Günther 197” printed] was not a type because the species name was incorrectly spelt, the data label did not have all of the available information and because the specimen was referable to R. biolleyi intermedia. In fact the style of the labels rather suggests the opposite, and the specimen is rather darker than the syntypes of R. biolleyi intermedia, which is only a colour variation of R. biolleyi . The status of this specimen and of the neotype is therefore unclear. Box A4d.

Ripipteryx biolleyi Saussure, 1896 .