Orphulella mexicana, Saussure, 1861 a: 160

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 3: The Acridoidea excluding the Acrididae: Oedipodinae, Revue suisse de Zoologie 119 (3), pp. 303-339 : 321-322

mexicana Saussure, 1861a: 160 [ Pezotettix ].

Mexico temperata. Unspecified number of Ƌ and ♀ .

Lectotype Ƌ (designated by Gurney & Brooks, 1959: 8) with labels: “Cordova, t.c.” [printed on white card]; “ Melanoplus mexicanus Sauss. ” [handwritten on green paper]; “LectHOLOTYE, Melanoplus mexicanus (Sauss.) , Selected 1956 by Ashley B. Gurney” [handwritten on red card with “ HOLOTYPE ” and “Ashley B. Gurney” printed]; “ Lectotype valid?” [handwritten on red paper]. Specimen set with wings folded: the antennae, the tarsi of the left front leg, the right middle leg, the tibia and tarsi of the left hind leg and the last tarsal segment of the right hind leg are lost. Unfortunately, the MHNG collection has two series of this species under different generic names and the lectotype is invalid because it is almost certainly not part of the type series. Gurney selected the lectotype from part of the series placed under “ Melanoplus mexicana var. dubia ” in box Z61. Apart from the fact that it is identified as a variation, the original description gives the locality as “ Mexico temperata” while the data label of the lectotype has “t[errae].c[alidae].” In box Z20 there is a series placed under “ Platyphyma mexicana ”; this was examined by Carbonell, who identified and labelled a Ƌ and a ♀ from Oaxaca as the true type specimens of P. mexicana (Carbonell, in litt.).

Melanoplus mexicanus (Saussure, 1861) .