Pezotettix septentrionalis, Saussure, 1861 a: 159 - 160

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 3: The Acridoidea excluding the Acrididae: Oedipodinae, Revue suisse de Zoologie 119 (3), pp. 303-339 : 330

septentrionalis Saussure, 1861a: 159-160 [ Pezotettix ].

Labrador. Unspecified number of ♀.

Lectotype ♀ (designated by Gurney & Brooks, 1959: 67) with labels: “Labrador” [handwritten on a strip of white paper]; “ Pezotettix septentrionalis Sauss. ” [handwritten on white paper]; “Musée de Genève, P. septentrionalis Sss. Type, No ” [determination handwritten on printed white card]; “LectHOLOTYE, Pezotettix septentrionalis Sauss., 1957 , Ashley B. Gurney ” [handwritten on red card with “ HOLOTYPE ” and “ Ashley B. Gurney ” printed]. Specimen set with wings folded; the tarsi of the right middle leg and the last tarsal segment of the left hind leg are missing. There are at four Ƌ and five ♀ with the same data which are presumably paralectotypes although not labelled as such. Box Z63.

A junior synonym of Melanoplus borealis borealis (Fieber, 1853) .