Tagaloscelimena cebuensis 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 : 55

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4485.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5959719
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scientific name	Tagaloscelimena cebuensis Günther, 1938
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Tagaloscelimena cebuensis Günther, 1938 View in CoL

Tagaloscelimena cebuensis: Günther 1938a, 1955 View in CoL .

Type material examined. 1♀ HOLOTYPE and 1♂ PARATYPE Cebu ( MTD). Photographs of the type specimens are available online at DORSA website (http://systax.org/de/details/tax/ 160401).

Type locality: The Philippines: Central Visayas : Cebu .

Notes. This species has vertex narrower than in T. aurivillii , it is smaller in size and has smoother pronotum, femora are more robust and have stronger tubercles, ventrolateral projections are shorter and not directed forwards, but outwards. Furthermore, this is much more colorful species than T. aurivillii , it has dark pronotum marked with yellow tint. On the type labels, Günther (1938) firstly wanted to describe it as a subspecies of T. aurivillii , but then decided to describe it as a separate valid species.