An annotated catalogue of the pygmy grasshoppers of the tribe Scelimenini Bolívar, 1887 (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) with two new Scelimena species from the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra
Author
Muhammad, Amira Aqilah
Author
Tan, Ming Kai
Author
Abdullah, Nurul Ashikin
Author
Azirun, Mohammad Sofian
Author
Bhaskar, Dhaneesh
Author
Skejo, Josip
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Zootaxa
2018
2018-09-25
4485
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1
70
journal article
29501
10.11646/zootaxa.4485.1.1
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Indoscelimena saussurei
(
Hancock, 1915
)
Eugavialidium saussurei
:
Hancock 1915
.
Indoscelimena saussurei
:
Günther 1938a
,
Steinmann 1970
,
Otte 1979
,
Shishodia 1991
,
Blackith 1992
,
Shishodia
et al.
2010
.
Type
material
not examined. In the original paper, number of specimens or their sex were not precised, but measurements were only given for a male. In OSF it is written that in Philadelphia one
holotype
male is deposited. We do not know if
type
series include more specimens.
Type
locality
:
India
: Kolkata.
Notes
. Description of this species (
Hancock 1915
) agrees more that of
Indoscelimena
than that of
Euscelimena
or
Scelimena—
ventral margins of the hind femora are not armed, vertex is about the same width as the compound eye, hind tibia is moderately widened, while the first tarsal segment very little or not at all. Furthermore, ventrolateral projection is not strong, but weakly produced and bearing weak spine. Because of those characters and because of biogeographic affinity, we agree that the species is member of
Indoscelimena
. However, examination of more specimens is needed.
Hancock (1915)
wrote that the species is very similar to
I. angulata
, but it is also to
I. india
.