Terres chaudes du Mexique. Unspecifi ed series.
Saussure (1860) placed this name in the synonymy of
P. klugii Brandt, 1839. He stated that the latter species is
abundant and that he collected it “à Cordova, à Orizaba, à
Panuco et sur tout le versant oriental du plateau”. Hoffman
(1999: 389) erroneously assumed that the localities given
by Saussure for the distribution of P. klugii referred to
P. picteti whereas Saussure (1860: 294) implied that a
single ♀ specimen served for the original description. The
MHNG collection contains 14 card-mounted specimens
under the name Pachyurus klugii. No specimen can be
identifi ed as the type of P. picteti from the labels, but one
fi ts the size given in the original description and most of
the characters described by Saussure (1860: 295), and it
may be the holotype.
A junior synonym of Amplinus klugii (Brandt, 1839)
