Gryllopsis cantans, Saussure, 1897: 244

Hollier, John, Bruckner, Harald & Heads, Sam W., 2013, 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 5: Grylloidea, Revue suisse de Zoologie 120 (3), pp. 445-535 : 465-466

cantans Saussure, 1897: 244 [Ectecous].

Mexico, Orizaba (♀, Mus. Genavense) ; Guiana, Cayenne (Ƌ). Unspecified number of Ƌ and ♀ .

Lectotype Ƌ (designated by Hebard, 1928: 92) with labels: “CAYENNE” [printed on green paper]; “Ectecous cantans Sss. ” [handwritten on green paper]. There is a separate pin with the label: “PROPOSED LECTOTYPE ” [handwritten on a strip of white card. Specimen set with wings folded; the left middle leg is lost. The hind legs are detached and secured through the femurs on the original pin. Part of the terminalia have been dissected and are glued to a card mount secured on the original pin. Hebard designated “the Ƌ from Cayenne”, but there is a second Ƌ in the collection with the same labels on the pin and “PROPOSED PARALECTOTYPE ” [handwritten on white card] on a separate pin, it is not clear which was actually seen by Hebard. The ♀ paralectotype from Mexico was considered to belong to a different genus by Hebard (1928: 92). Box A20.

Ectecous cantans Saussure, 1897 .