Additions to the catalogue of mantid type material deposited in the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève (Insecta: Mantodea)
Author
Pfäuti, Patrice
Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève, CP 6436, CH- 1211 Genève 6, Suisse
Author
Hollier, John
Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Genève, CP 6436, CH- 1211 Genève 6, Suisse
John.Hollier@ville-ge.ch
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Revue suisse de Zoologie
2012
2012-09-30
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http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/151211
journal article
10.5962/bhl.part.151211
0035-418X
5822897
cubensis
Saussure, 1869 [
Gonatista
]
.
Four ♂,
two ♀
and
one specimen
of unspecified sex (
♀
?) are probably
syntypes
(box 6).
Two ♂ and
one ♀
labelled: "[sex]
Cuba
M. H. de Saussure
"
,
two ♂ and
one ♀
labelled: "[sex]
Cuba
(Mr.)
Poey
" and the unspecified specimen: "75-
2 ♀
= 5-23
Gonatista cubensis Sauss.
"
Each specimen has also a label "
Gonatista grisea Fabr.
" (green paper). All labels are handwritten.
G. cubensis
is now considered a junior synonym of
G. reticulata
(Thunberg, 1815)
, but Saussure & Zehntner (1894) placed it in synonymy with
G. grisea
(Fabricius, 1793)
, hence the identification labels.