Cladonotus humbertianus ( Saussure, 1862 )

Tumbrinck, Josef, Deranja, Maks, Adžić, Karmela, Pavlović, Marko & Skejo, Josip, 2020, Cockscomb-shaped twighopper, Cladonotus bhaskari sp. n., a new and rare pygmy grasshopper species from Sri Lanka (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae: Cladonotinae), Zootaxa 4821 (2), pp. 333-342 : 337

I) Decurved Sri-Lankan twighopper, Cladonotus humbertianus ( Saussure, 1862)

Tettix (Cladonotus) humbertianus: Saussure, 1862: 478 .

Cladonotus humbertianus: Walker 1871: 842 , Bolívar 1887: 209, Hancock 1904: 113, 1907: 16, 1915: 62, Kirby 1910: 9, 1914: 17, Sandrasagara 1950: 136, Blackith 1992: 22, Hollier 2013: 211.

Distribution. Sri Lanka: Peradeniya (see Table 1), Trincomalee (N8.594306, E81.167916) ( Saussure 1862), Kandy (for coordinates see Table 1), Gammaduwa: Mavusakanda (= probably Mousakanda Estate) (N7.568020, E80.696309) (Sandrasagara 1950).

Habitat. Rainforests.

Notes. The decurved Sri-Lankan twighopper has been reported once (Sandrasagara 1950) since the description ( Saussure 1862). Syntypes were collected more than 150 years ago, around Peradeniya and Trincomalee ( Saussure 1862). In the original description, Saussure (1862) placed this species in the genus Tettix Charp. , newly founded subgenus Cladonotus . Because the original combination was Tettix (Cladonotus) humbertianus , the author should be written in brackets according to Article 51.3. of the International Code of the Zoological Nomenclature ( ICZN 1999). Besides the type material (MHNG), there are a few specimens of this species in the Colombo Museum, Sri Lanka (Sandrasagara 1950), which should be studied and digitalized in future.