Holocompsa azteca Saussure 1893
Creators: name: Hollier, John
name: Marshall, Judith
name: Legendre, Frédéric
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: azteca Saussure, 1893: 296 [Homoeogamia]   
Mexico. Unspecified number of ♂ and ♀.  
Saussure & Zehntner (1894) gave a full description of both sexes (in Saussure, 1893 the name only appears in a key) and stated that the provenance was Omilteme in Guerrero, leg.H.H.Smith.The MHNG collection contains eight specimens. A ♂ specimen (MHNG-ARTO-20481) with labels: “ Omilteme, Guerrero, 8000ft, July, H.H. Smith ” [printed on white card]; “Homoeogonia azteca Sauss. ♂ ” [handwritten on green paper]; “Pron. Figure!” [handwritten by Saussure on white card]; “Homoeogonia Azteca Sauss. Cotype ♂ Muséum Genève ” handwritten on white card]; “ Syntypus ” [printed on red paper]. The specimen is directly pinned, with the wings folded. Most of both antennae and the claws of the left hind leg are lost.  
A ♀ specimen (MHNG-ARTO-20482) with labels: “ Omilteme, Guerrero, 8000ft, July, H.H. Smith ” [printed on white card]; “Homoeogonia azteca Sauss. ♀ ” [handwritten on green paper]; “ Syntypus ” [printed on red paper]. The specimen is directly pinned, with the wings roughly spread. The right hind leg is missing.  
A ♀ specimen (MHNG-ARTO-20483) with labels: “ Omilteme, Guerrero, 8000ft, July, H.H. Smith ” [printed on white card]; “Homoeogonia azteca Sauss. ♂ ” [handwritten on green paper]; “figuré!” [handwritten by Saussure on white card]; “ Syntypus ” [printed on red paper]. The specimen is directly pinned, with the wings folded. Most of the tight antenna and the last tarsal segment of the left hind leg are lost.  
An immature specimen (MHNG-ARTO-20484) with labels: “Omilteme, Guerrero, 8000ft, July, H.H. Smith” [printed on white card]; “Homoeogonia azteca Sauss. larve” [handwritten on green paper]; “ Syntypus ” [printed on red paper]. The specimen is directly pinned. The ends of both antennae, the right front leg and the tarsi of the left hind leg are missing.  
A ♀ specimen (MHNG-ARTO-20485) with labels: “ Omilteme, Guerrero, 8000ft, July, H.H. Smith ” [printed on white card]; “Homoeogonia azteca Sauss. ♀ ” [handwritten on green paper]; “ Syntypus ” [printed on red paper]. The specimen is directly pinned, with the wings folded.  
An immature specimen (MHNG-ARTO-20486) with labels: “Omilteme, Guerrero, 8000ft, July, H.H. Smith ” [printed on white card]; “Homoeogonia azteca Sauss. Larva ♀ ” [handwritten on green paper]; “ Syntypus ” [printed on red paper]. The specimen is directly pinned. The right front leg is lost.  
An immature specimen (MHNG-ARTO-20487) with labels: “Omilteme, Guerrero, 8000ft, July, H.H. Smith ” [printed on white card]; “Homoeogonia azteca Sauss. Larva ♀ ” [handwritten on green paper]; “ Syntypus ” [printed on red paper]. The specimen is directly pinned.  
An immature specimen (MHNG-ARTO-20488) with labels: “Omilteme, Guerrero, 8000ft, July, H.H. Smith ” [printed on white card]; “Homoeogonia azteca Sauss. Larva ♂ ” [handwritten on green paper]; “ Syntypus ” [printed on red paper]. The specimen is directly pinned. The ends of the antennae and the claws of the right middle and hind legs are missing. Box Blattodea 60.  
 A junior synonym of Homoeogamia mexicana Burmeister, 1838
description: Published as part of Hollier, John, Marshall, Judith & Legendre, Frédéric, 2020, An annotated list of the Blattodea (Insecta) described by Henri de Saussure. Part 1: the Corydiidae, pp. 341-348 in Revue suisse de Zoologie 127 (2) on page 343, DOI: 10.35929/RSZ.0023, http://zenodo.org/record/5743830