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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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4485.1.1
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Genus
Bidentatettix
Zheng, 1992
Bidentatettix
:
Zheng 1992
,
2005
,
Otte 1997
,
Liang & Zheng 1998
,
Deng
et al.
2007
,
Storozhenko & Paik 2011
,
Deng 2016
, Zha
et al.
2017.
Type species:
Bidenttettx
yunnanensis
Zheng, 1992
.
Composition and distribution.
Two species, one in NW Vietnam (
B. gorochovi
) and one in S Yunnan (
B. yunnanensis
).
Notes
. The genus was established for
B. yunnanensis
Zheng, 1992
from Xishuangbanna (PR
China
), characteristic in toothed carinae, toothed femora and high horns made of
lateral
and transversal carinae of the vertex. Described in the same year from
Son La
(
Vietnam
), only about
300 km
east to Xishuangbanna,
B. gorochovi
(
Podgornaya, 1992
)
was moved from the genus
Tettilobus
to
Bidentatettix
by
Storozhenko & Paik (2011)
. The two species could be synonymous but closer examination is needed. Described from Nilgiris (
India
:
Tamil Nadu
),
Gavialidium carli
Hebard, 1930
comb. resurr.
is a member of the genus
Gavialidium
, very close to the
type
species of the genus (
G. crocodilum
), and very likely not a member of the genus
Bidentatettix
(as according to
Storozhenko & Paik 2011
). This is based on
G. carli
having less dentate carinae and femora very similar to that of
G. crocodilum
(see
Hebard 1930
:
Figs 3
,
4
), and on the distribution gap between
Bidentatettix
and
Gavialidium—
of about
3000 km
. The genera
Bidentatettix
,
Gavialidium
, and
Tegotettix
are very similar morphologically. Despite of the previous attempts to classify the genus as
Cladonotinae
(e.g.
Storozhenko & Paik 2011
, Zha
et al.
2017), it is very close to
Tegotettix
(its
type
species,
T. armatus
),
Paragavialidium
and
Gavialidium
and is thus a true
Scelimenini
member.