Heteropternis minor, Saussure, 1899: 631 - 632

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 2: The Acrididae: Oedipodinae, Revue suisse de Zoologie 119 (2), pp. 215-260 : 241

minor Saussure, 1899: 631-632 [ Pachytylus ].

Sansibar. Unspecified.

One ♀ syntype with labels: “ Zanzibar ” [handwritten on pink paper]; “Voeltzkow” [handwritten on a strip of white card]; “ minor Sss. ♀, Zanzibar ” [handwritten on pink paper]; “Typus” [printed on white card disk with red margin]; “ Pachytylus minor Sauss. Type!, = Heteropternis minor Sauss, V. M. Dirsh det. 1958” [handwritten on white card with “ V. M. Dirsh det. 195” printed]. Specimen set with right wings spread and left wings folded; the right antenna and the tibia and tarsi of the right middle leg are missing. A ♀ syntype in the SMFD is incorrectly referred to as the holotype on OSF. Box V 10 .

Heteropternis minor ( Saussure, 1899) .