Siccotrella niger, Saussure, 1877: 164 - 165

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 : 505

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.10115000

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scientific name

Siccotrella niger
status

 

niger Saussure, 1877: 164-165 View in CoL [ Gryllus ].

Inde centrale (leg. Falconnet); Java. Unspecified number of Ƌ and ♀ .

One Ƌ and one ♀ syntype. A Ƌ with labels: “Ƌ Indes inter., M H de Saussure” [handwritten on ruled white card]; “ Gryllus niger Sauss. ” [handwritten on yellow paper]; “ Syntypus ” [printed on red paper]. Specimen set with wings folded; the right front leg and left hind leg are missing. The right hind leg, which lacks two tarsal segments, is detached and secured through the femur on the original pin. A ♀ with labels: “Ƌ [sic] Indes or., M. H de Saussure” [handwritten on ruled white card]; “ Gryllus niger Sauss. ” [handwritten on yellow paper]; “ Syntypus ” [printed on red paper]. Specimen set with wings spread, the left antenna is detached and glued to the locality label. The species name label in the insect box has the locality “Indes centrales” handwritten in the lower left corner; the locality label of the ♀ was obviously a lapse. Box A12.

A junior synonym of Melanogryllus conscitus (Walker, 1869) .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Gryllidae

Genus

Siccotrella

Loc

Siccotrella niger

Hollier, John, Bruckner, Harald & Heads, Sam W. 2013
2013
Loc

niger

SAUSSURE, H. DE 1877: 165
1877
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