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

Scelimena bellula 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.