Mistshenkoana vitiensis, Saussure, 1878: 661 - 662

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 : 531

vitiensis Saussure, 1878: 661-662 , fig. lxxi, 2 [ Aphonus ].

Iles de Viti (coll. Brunner de Wattenwyl no 3909). One Ƌ and two ♀ .

The MHNG collection includes part of an ovipositor and the spermatophore illustrated by Saussure glued to a card mount with “3909 Br” handwritten in pencil on it, which is clearly part of the type material. However, the specimen in the NHMW with the Brunner collection number 3909 is placed under Podoscirtus insularis Saussure, 1878 . It is not clear if this is a lapse in the description, a labelling error or whether the type series was actually mixed and one specimen has been subsequently re-identified. Box A 29 .

Mistshenkoana vitiensis ( Saussure, 1878) .