Indoscelimena Günther, 1938

Muhammad, Amira Aqilah, Tan, Ming Kai, Abdullah, Nurul Ashikin, Azirun, Mohammad Sofian, Bhaskar, Dhaneesh & Skejo, Josip, 2018, 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, Zootaxa 4485 (1), pp. 1-70 : 33

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4485.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5959534

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scientific name

Indoscelimena Günther, 1938
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Genus Indoscelimena Günther, 1938 View in CoL

Indoscelimena: Günther 1938a View in CoL , Shishodia 1991, Blackith 1992, Yin et al. 1996, Otte 1997.

Type species: Eugavialidium flavopictum Bolívar, 1909 .

Composition and distribution. The genus is composed of 6 species distributed in India ( I. angulata , I. flavopicta , I. india comb. nov., I. saussurei ), Myanmar ( I. birmanica , I. hamata ), and (?) Thailand ( I. birmanica ).

Notes. The genus was hitherto composed of five species from India and Myanmar. Here we transfer one more species to the genus and report the genus for the first time from Thailand. Members of this genus are easily separated from other similar genera ( Euscelimena and Scelimena ) by the smaller and robust appearance, blunt (obtuse) pronotal projections and obtuse femoral teeth, usually bright yellow or orange (Günther 1938, Blackith 1992). Furthermore, species of this genus lack teeth on the ventral margin of the hind femora. Indoscelimena birmanica (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893) from Myanmar and I. india comb. nov. ( Fig. 12 View FIGURE 12 ) of Scelimena india Hancock, 1907 could be synonymous, but more material is needed. Accurate delimitation of this genus from Scelimena is still needed, because some species have overlapping morphology between two genera, including S. discalis ( Hancock, 1915) and S. gombakensis sp. nov. This is one of the rather neglected genera and since its establishment, not revision was published. Thus, we do not preform revision of the genus, but point the necessity for it in the future.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Tetrigidae

Loc

Indoscelimena Günther, 1938

Muhammad, Amira Aqilah, Tan, Ming Kai, Abdullah, Nurul Ashikin, Azirun, Mohammad Sofian, Bhaskar, Dhaneesh & Skejo, Josip 2018
2018
Loc

Indoscelimena: Günther 1938a

: Gunther 1938
1938
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