Scelimena bellula, Storozhenko et Dawwrueng, 2015

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 : 326

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5200.4.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9DD172B3-3A46-4FAD-BE51-004E288D98A1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7277037
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B187F4-0818-D66D-A4D7-2A4DFC48FC0D
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Scelimena bellula
status

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Scelimena bellula View in CoL species group

Composition and distribution. This species group, unique in lack of all the pronotal projections except for the FL2 and VL, currently includes five species, inhabiting NE India, Indochina, and southern PR China: (1) S. bellula Storozhenko et Dawwrueng, 2015 from Thailand; (2) S. rosacea ( Hancock, 1915) from India and Myanmar; (3) S. nitidogranulosa from southern China (Guangdong); (4) S. guangxiensis assigned to this species group herewith, from southern PR China (Guangxi) and Vietnam (erroneously reported as Scelimena rosacea by Muhammad et al., 2018); and (5) S. melli widespread in southern and eastern PR China.