Forficula chopardi Hincks, 1947 a: 201, fig. 1.

Type material

1 ♀, paratype, F3233.1723, dried, mounted on card.

Locality label

Museum Paris / Mt. / Bintumani / 1800 m. // Museum Paris / Sierra Leone / P. Jaeger.

Taxonomy

Forficulidae, Forficulinae, Forficula chopardi Hincks, 1947 .

Remarks

Steinmann (1993: 596), in the entry for F. chopardi, cites ‘1947 Anechura chopardi Hincks’ as the original described taxon. This should read ‘1947 Forficula chopardi Hincks’. Hincks described Anechura chopardi in 1958 (Hincks 1958a: 185). Brindle (1973f: 270) transferred Anechura chopardi to Forficula with the new name F. borellii ( F. chopardi Hincks, 1947 being the senior homonym). In Steinmann

1989c the two species, F. borellii Brindle, 1973 (p. 815) and F. chopardi Hincks, 1947 (p. 817) are clearly distinguished.