Euscelimena gavialis, Saussure, 1861 b: 485 - 486

Hollier, John, 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 4: The Acridomorpha excluding the superfamily Acridoidea, Revue suisse de Zoologie 120 (2), pp. 203-219 : 210

gavialis Saussure, 1861b: 485-486 [ Scelymena ].

Ile de Ceylan, Peradenia (leg. Humbert). Unspecified number of Ƌ and more than one ♀ (variation to prothorax mentioned) .

One ♀ syntype with labels: “ Sc. gavialis Sauss. , Ceylan, M. Humbert ” [handwritten on white paper]; “ Syntypus ” [printed on red paper]. Specimen set with wings folded. It is possible that other syntypes, which were not labelled as such, have been placed under new names when the collection was rearranged in the early 1930s. Box Q2 .

Euscelimena gavialis (Saussure, 1861) .