Scelimena producta (Serville, 1838)

Lao, Chuangyu, Kasalo, Niko, Gao, Fan, Deng, Weian & Skejo, Josip, 2022, Review of the Chinese species of the genus Scelimena Serville, 1838 (Tetrigidae Scelimeninae: Scelimenini), Zootaxa 5200 (4), pp. 321-343 : 336

Scelimena producta species group

Composition and distribution. This group is composed of species that usually have wide vertex; toothed ventral margins of the hind femora; small metalateral tubercles (up to three pairs); continuous median carina of the pronotum; ventrolateral spines directed forwards. Members of this group are: Scelimena producta ( Serville, 1838) from Sumatra, Java, and Bali, Scelimena dammermanni Günther, 1938 stat. nov. from East Sumba Island, S. dentiumeris ( Hancock, 1907) from Borneo, S. pyrroma sp. nov. from Hainan, S. chinensis ( Hancock, 1915) from Vietnam, and S. celebica ( Bolívar, 1887) from Sulawesi. Here Scelimena dammermanni is considered as distinct species, not a subspecies of S. producta , because of the lack of teeth on the ventral margin of hind femora. Lack of the teeth is not present in any of S. producta specimens. Scelimena chinensis is also herewith assigned to this species group because of the wide vertex, toothed ventral margin of the hind femora, as well as presence of small metalateral tubercles on the lateral carina of the pronotum.