Afrocriotettix nigellus ( Bolívar, 1887 )

Hollier, John, 2016, The type specimens of Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Ignacio Bolívar and deposited in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève, Revue suisse de Zoologie 123 (1), pp. 21-33 : 27

nigellus Bolívar, 1887: 225 [Criotettix].

Gabon ( Musée de Genève et ma coll.) More than one ♂. The MHNG collection has a ♂ and two ♀ specimens under this name.

The locality on the labels affixed to the specimens is “Camerun”, although the species name label in the insect box has “ Gabon ” handwritten in the lower left corner. The ♂ has a label reading “ Criotettix nigellus Bol. Camerun” in a handwriting similar to those of other Bolivar labels, and may be a paralectotype, although it is more likely that the series was identified by Bolivar at a later date than that he mistook the provenance of his types. The ♂ lectotype, designated by Paris (1994: 244), is in the MNMS. Box Q 3.

Afrocriotettix nigellus ( Bolívar, 1887) .