Lobomastax hova, Saussure, 1899: 643 - 644

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 : 211

hova Saussure, 1899: 643-644 [ Zonocerus ].

Madagaskar. Unspecified number of ♀ .

One Ƌ syntype with labels: “ Zonocerus Hova Ƌ Sss. ” [handwritten on white paper]; “Type” [printed on white card disk with red border]; “ Zonocerus hova Sauss. , Type!, = Zon. elegans Thunb., V. M. Dirsh det. 1958” [handwritten on white card with “ V. M. Dirsh det. 195” printed]. The species name label in the insect box has the locality “ Madagascar ” handwritten in the lower left corner. The specimen lacks the claws of the left front leg and the last tarsal segment of the left middle leg. While the original description states that the material seen by Saussure was ♀, the measurements of the specimen conform to those given in the description, suggesting that this was a lapse (see Dirsh, 1961: 396). However, it is also possible that there is a ♀ type in the SMFD. Box X 9 .

A junior synonym of Zonocerus elegans elegans (Thunberg, 1815) .