Scelimena spiculata (Stål, 1877)

Tettix spiculatus: Stål 1877, Casto de Elera 1895.

Gavialidium spiculatum: Bolívar 1887 .

Eugavialidium spiculatum: Hancock 1907a, Kirby 1910, Bruner 1915.

Scelimena spiculata: Günther 1938a .

Type material examined. 1♀ SYNTYPE Ins. Philipp. Leg. Semper (MfN), 1♀ SYNTYPE [cited as HOLOTYPE in OSF] Ins. Philipp. Leg. Semper (NHRS). Photographs of the examined syntypes are available online in OSF.

Type locality: The Philippines (without specified locality).

Notes. The species is unique within Scelimena species in lacking ML projection, but having distinct tubercles on the lateral carinae, distinctly after the humeral angles. S. spiculata was in the past moved between different genera ( Gavialidium, Eugavialidium, Scelimena), and here we agree with Günther (1938) that the species belongs to the genus Scelimena, and is close in morphology to members of Scelimena producta specie group.