Lactista pellepidus, Saussure, 1884: 144

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 : 246-247

pellepidus Saussure, 1884: 144 [ Lactista ].

Yucatan. Unspecified number of ♁ and ♀ .

Lectotype ♁ (designated by Otte, 1984: 323) with labels: “Valladolid, Yucatan, Gaumer” [printed on white card]; “ Lactista pellepidus Sss , Yucatan ♁, M. H de Sauss.” [handwritten on green paper]; “Typus C S C 1966” [handwritten by Carbonell on red card]; “ Lectotypus ” [printed on red card]. Specimen set with wings spread. Two ♀ paralectotypes with the same data label are also present. Although Carbonell and Otte both considered these specimens to be the types, the style of the data labels suggest that they were part of the material collected for the preparation of the Godman & Salvin’s Biologia Centrali-Americana series in the 1890s ( Saussure, 1896; Saussure & Pictet, 1897, 1898), while Gaumer only appears to have lived in Yucatan after 1885. It is probable that these specimens are not actually part of the type series and that the lectotype designation is therefore invalid. The MHNG has a ♁ and two ♀ specimens under this name labelled “ Guatemala ”, which may be the real syntypes, Guatemala being rather loosely defined at that time. Images on OSF. Box V19.

Lactista pellepidus Saussure, 1884 .