Copiophora cultricornis, Pictet, 1888: 47 - 48

Hollier, John, 2011, An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Alphonse Pictet (alone, and with Henri de Saussure) with an account of the primary type material present in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle in Geneva., Revue suisse de Zoologie 118 (2), pp. 345-400 : 358

cultricornis Pictet, 1888: 47-48 , fig. 23 [ Copiophora ].

Amérique centrale. Unspecified number of Ƌ and ♀.

Three ♀ specimens. A ♀ with labels: “V. de Chiriqui, 2-3000 ft., Champion” [printed on white card]; “cultricollis [sic]” [handwritten on white paper]; “ cultricornis Pict. , cultricollis?” [handwritten on green paper]; “Possible syntype of C. cultricornis Pictet, 1888 ? Hollier 2010 ” [handwritten on red paper]. Specimen set with wings folded. A £ with labels: “V. de Chiriqui, 2-3000 ft., Champion” [printed on white card]; “ Copiophora cultricornis Pict. ” [handwritten on green paper]; “Possible syntype of C. cultricornis Pictet, 1888 ? Hollier 2010 ” [handwritten on red paper]. Specimen set with wings folded; most of the left antenna is lost. A ♀ with labels: “Coll. G. et S., Volc. Chiriqui, G.C. Champion” [printed on white paper]; “ Copiophora cultricornis Pict. ” [handwritten on green paper]; “Possible syntype of C. cultricornis Pictet, 1888 ? Hollier 2010 ” [handwritten on red paper]. Specimen set with wings spread; most of both antennae, the right front and middle legs and both hind legs are missing. The locality labels suggest that these specimens arrived in the MHNG collection when Saussure and Pictet were preparing the first Orthoptera volume of the BioLogia CentraLi- Americana ( Saussure & Pictet 1898), meaning that they probably arrived after the publication of the description. This impression is reinforced by the fact that the locality given in the description is only “l’Amérique centrale” rather than something more specific. However, in the BCA ( Saussure & Pictet, 1898) the only localities mentioned are Chiriqui and Buguba in Panama, and Redtenbacher (1891: 342) refers to specimens of this species from Chiriqui in the collection of Brunner von Wattenwyl, showing that Champion’s material (it being unlikely that any other collector would have visited this particular site at the time) was in Europe at around the time of publication. The specimens in the MHNG collection are therefore possibly syntypes; if not, the whereabouts of the type material is unknown. Images on OSF. Box F1.

Copiphora cuLtricoLLis Pictet, 1888.