116 urn:lsid:arphahub.com:pub:619a5b3a-5ec8-5ff7-b0b1-5070a7c17694 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:70C65CC0-001D-487B-A05D-B86A205B9582 Contributions to Entomology CTE 0005-805X 2511-6428 Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung 10.3897/contrib.entomol.76.e207042 207042 Corrigenda Orthoptera Taxonomy Corrigendum: A new species of Sphingonotus (Acrididae: Oedipodinae) from the Salvage Islands with an updated list of taxa from the Macaronesian Islands. Contributions to Entomology 76(1): 125–131. https://doi.org/10.3897/contrib.entomol.76.e187057 Husemann Martin martin.husemann@smnk.de https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5536-6681 1 Hawlitschek Oliver https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8010-4157 2 Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich Zurich Switzerland https://ror.org/02crff812 Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe Karlsruhe Germany https://ror.org/035hn3t86

Corresponding author: Martin Husemann (martin.husemann@smnk.de)

Academic editor: Lara-Sophie Dey

 2026 18 08 2026 76 1 159 160 C1D2B803-50D3-5613-A3CC-C18B398581BB 6853BD67-F977-4B1E-905B-03A06D7C5945 08 07 2026 24 07 2026 Martin Husemann, Oliver Hawlitschek This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. https://zoobank.org/6853BD67-F977-4B1E-905B-03A06D7C5945 <p>This corrigendum addresses an error in <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">Husemann and Hawlitschek (2026)</xref> regarding the synonymy of <italic><tp:taxon-name><tp:taxon-name-part taxon-name-part-type="genus" reg="Sphingonotus">Sphingonotus</tp:taxon-name-part> <tp:taxon-name-part taxon-name-part-type="species" reg="asper">asper</tp:taxon-name-part></tp:taxon-name></italic> (Brullé, 1840) and <tp:taxon-name><tp:taxon-name-part taxon-name-part-type="genus" reg="Sphingonotus">S.</tp:taxon-name-part> (<tp:taxon-name-part taxon-name-part-type="subgenus" reg="Neosphingonotus">N.</tp:taxon-name-part>) <tp:taxon-name-part taxon-name-part-type="species" reg="pachecoi">pachecoi</tp:taxon-name-part></tp:taxon-name> (Bolívar, 1908). In the original publication, we erroneously designated <italic><tp:taxon-name><tp:taxon-name-part taxon-name-part-type="genus" reg="Sphingonotus">S.</tp:taxon-name-part> <tp:taxon-name-part taxon-name-part-type="species" reg="asper">asper</tp:taxon-name-part></tp:taxon-name></italic> (Brullé, 1840) as syn. nov. of <italic><tp:taxon-name><tp:taxon-name-part taxon-name-part-type="genus" reg="Sphingonotus">S.</tp:taxon-name-part> <tp:taxon-name-part taxon-name-part-type="species" reg="pachecoi">pachecoi</tp:taxon-name-part></tp:taxon-name></italic> (Bolívar, 1908). However, <italic><tp:taxon-name><tp:taxon-name-part taxon-name-part-type="genus" reg="Sphingonotus">S.</tp:taxon-name-part> <tp:taxon-name-part taxon-name-part-type="species" reg="asper">asper</tp:taxon-name-part></tp:taxon-name></italic> has priority. Therefore, we now treat <italic><tp:taxon-name><tp:taxon-name-part taxon-name-part-type="genus" reg="Sphingonotus">S.</tp:taxon-name-part> <tp:taxon-name-part taxon-name-part-type="species" reg="pachecoi">pachecoi</tp:taxon-name-part></tp:taxon-name></italic> (Bolívar, 1908) as syn. nov. of <italic><tp:taxon-name><tp:taxon-name-part taxon-name-part-type="genus" reg="Sphingonotus">S.</tp:taxon-name-part> <tp:taxon-name-part taxon-name-part-type="species" reg="asper">asper</tp:taxon-name-part></tp:taxon-name></italic> (Brullé, 1840). We thank Holger Braun, La Plata, Argentina and Bruno Massa, Palermo, Italy for pointing out our inexplicable oversight.</p> <p>Consequently, the relevant parts of the paper should read as follows:</p> </sec> <sec sec-type="Abstract" id="sec2"> <title>Abstract

Here, we describe a new species Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) axeli sp. nov. from the Salvage Islands. We further synonymize Sphingonotus (Neosphingonotus) pachecoi (Bolívar, 1908) with Sphingonotus (Sphingonotus) asper (Brullé, 1840) and provide an updated list of currently known taxa from the Macaronesian Islands.

 Results and discussion

We examined specimens assigned to the genus Sphingonotus, collected on the Salvage Islands, the Canary Islands and Madeira from the following repositories: Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France (MNHN); Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain (MNCN), Natural History Museum London (NHMUK), Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia, U.S.A. (ANSP); Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria (MNH); Staatliche Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Germany (SMNK); and Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversitätswandels, Bonn, Germany (ZFMK). The specimens included the rediscovered type specimens of Sphingonotus asper and holo-, para- and topotypes of S. (N.) pachecoi. Specimens were either imaged with a Canon EOS 200d and a 100 mm Canon macro lens or with a Canon EOS 5DS and a 100 mm macro lens implemented in a custom made DUN Inc. stacking system. Measurements were taken with a digital steel caliper to the nearest 0.1 mm.

Taxonomy

Sphingonotus (Neosphingonotus) asper (Brullé, 1840)

Material studied. 1 ♀, TYPE, Museum Paris, Canaries, Webb et Berthelot, 3-41, asperum Br.; 1 ♂, Holotipo, Fortunata pachecoi, Lanzarote Pacheco, MNCN_Ent 163610, M.N.C.N. Madrid, MNCN Cat. Tipos No 7429; 1 ♀, Alotipo, Lanzarote Cabrera, MNCN_Ent 163616, M.N.C.N. Madrid, MNCN Cat. Tipos No 7429; 1 ♀, Topotype de pachecoi, Islas Canarias, Lanzarote, M.C. & G. Kruseman, 3 km east of El Golfo, 8-III-1977 [MNHN]; 1 ♂, Topotype, Wernerella pachecoi (Bolívar) det. G. Kruseman, Islas Canarias, Lanzarote, M.C. & G. Kruseman, 3 km east of El Golfo, 8-III-1977, Brit. Mus. 1977-279 [NHMUK]; 1 ♀, Topotype, Wernerella pachecoi (Bolívar) det. G. Kruseman, Islas Canarias, Lanzarote, M.C. & G. Kruseman, 3 km east of El Golfo, 8-III-1977, Brit. Mus. 1977-279 [NHMUK].

Due to great interest in the genus on the islands, additional species had been recorded and described in the past, but have been either found to be synonymous (S. freyi, S. granulatum), or based on misidentification (S. (N.) paradoxus, S. (N.) canariensis, S. picteti). The status of most other species has been confirmed in previous studies (e.g., Hochkirch and Husemann 2008), but the location of the type of S. asper remained unknown. The type was rediscovered in the MNHN (Fig. 2). The type location is not defined for the species and only given as ”Canaries”. Based on the morphology, we confirmed S. asper to be synonymous with S. (N.) pachecoi from Lanzarote. As no type location is known from S. asper and the Canarian endemics are usually only found on a single island, we synonymize the two and consider S. asper as the valid name. As the species has been shown to have cross veins typical for the subgenus Neosphingonotus (see Hochkirch and Husemann 2008), it is assigned to this subgenus. Thus, we propose the following synonymy: Sphingonotus (Neosphingonotus) pachecoi (Bolívar, 1908) = Sphingonotus (Neosphingonotus) asper (Brullé, 1840).

 Updated species list for the Macaronesia Islands

Canary Islands

Sphingonotus asper (Brullé, 1840) – Lanazarote – endemic (Hochkirch and Husemann 2008)

(Sphingonotus pachecoi (Bolívar, 1908) – syn. nov. of S. asper) (this study)

References Hochkirch A, Husemann M (2008) A review of the Canarian Sphingonotini with description of a new species from Fuerteventura (Orthoptera: Acrididae, Oedipodinae). Zoological Studies 47: 495–506. Husemann M, Hawlitschek O (2026) A new species of Sphingonotus (Acrididae: Oedipodinae) from the Salvage Islands with an updated list of taxa from the Macaronesian Islands. Contributions to Entomology 76(1): 125–131. https://doi.org/10.3897/contrib.entomol.76.e187057 Additional information Conflict of interest

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M. Husemann https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5536-6681

O. Hawlitschek https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8010-4157

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