Pachytylus nanus, Saussure, 1884: 86 - 87

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 2: The Acrididae: Oedipodinae, Revue suisse de Zoologie 119 (2), pp. 215-260 : 242-243

nanus Saussure, 1884: 86-87 [ Hippiscus ].

Amer. boreal., Colorado (coll. Brunner). Unspecified number of ♁ and ♀ .

Possible ♁ syntype with labels: “Etats Unis, Mr H de Saussure” [handwritten on white card]; “III” [printed on white card]; “nana? Sss., Amer. bor.” [handwritten on green paper]; “Pardaloph. nana’ Sss, ♁” [handwritten on green paper]; “ Syntypus of P. nanus Sauss. 1884 ? Hollier 2010” [handwritten on red paper]. Specimen set with wings spread; most of the left antenna, the last tarsal segment of the right middle leg, the tarsi of the left hind leg and the last tarsal segment of the right hind leg are lost. Otte (1984: 326) states that this is the [holo]type, but the original description includes both ♁ and ♀ characters and no holotype was designated. If Otte’s interpretation of the small printed label as meaning Illinois is correct, it is even less likely that this specimen is part of the type series, which the original description states was from Colorado. There are syntypes in the NHMW (Bruckner, pers. comm.). Box V 5 .

A junior synonym of Pardalophora haldemanii (Scudder, 1872) .