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
text
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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1175-5326
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Scelimena nitidogranulosa
Günther, 1938
Scelimena nitidogranulosa
:
Günther 1938a
,
1955
,
Liang & Zheng 1998
,
Zheng 2005
,
Deng 2016
.
Type
material examined
.
1♀
HOLOTYPE
China
: Canton Leg. S. Mell (
MfN
). The photo of the
holotype
is available online in OSF. Ventrolateral spines of the
holotype
are broken.
Type
locality
: PR
China
:
Guangdon
:
Guangzhou
[=
Canton in Günther
(1938)].
Notes
. The species is here assigned to
Scelimena bellula
species group, based on its similarity to
S. bellula
and
S. rosacea
.
Deng (2016)
reported specimen of this species from Guangdong (Ruyuan), Hainan (Nada, Changjiang, Chengmai, Ding'an, Qiongshan), and Fujian (Wuyishan). We are not sure if drawings from
Liang & Zheng (1998)
really represent this species—vertex in this specimen is much wider than in the holotype.