Teleogryllus aequipennis, Saussure, 1899: 602 - 603

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 : 448

aequipennis Saussure, 1899: 602-603 [ Gryllus ].

Zanzibar. Unspecified number of Ƌ and ♀ .

One Ƌ and one immature syntype. A Ƌ with labels: “ Zanzibar (Voeltzkow) 12.5.89” [handwritten on white paper]; “VOELTZKOW” [printed on a strip of white paper]; “ Gryllus aequipennis Sss. ” [handwritten on pink paper]; “ Teleogryllus aequipennis (Ss) det. D. Otte 1983” [handwritten by Otte on white card]; “ LECTOTYPE, Teleogryllus aequipennis (Sauss.) D. Otte 1983 ” [handwritten by Otte on red card]. Specimen set with wings folded, the right forewing is detached and glued to a card mount on the original pin. Both antennae and the left cercus are missing. There is a micro-tube with dissected parts secured through the stopper on the original pin. An immature specimen with labels: “ Zanzibar ” [handwritten on a strip of pink paper]; “VOELTZKOW” [printed on a strip of white paper]; “Probable syntype of T aequipennis (Sauss.) , Hollier 2011 ” [handwritten on red paper]. Both middle legs, the tibia and tarsi of the left hind leg and the tarsi of the right hind leg are lost. There is an immature syntype in the SMFD (images on SysTax). Otte & Cade (1983: 118) refer to the Ƌ specimen as the “type” without designating it as lectotype. Box A11.

A junior synonym of Teleogryllus pulchriceps (Gerstaecker, 1869) .