Tegotettix sagittarius ( Bolívar, 1887 )

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 : 58

Tegotettix sagittarius ( Bolívar, 1887)

Xistra sagittaria: Bolívar 1887 , Bruner 1915.

Tegotettix sagittarius: Günther 1938a , Blackith 1992.

Type material examined. 1♂ HOLOTYPE Ins. Phillipp. Leg. Semper ( NHRS). Photographs of the holotype are available online in OSF. París (1994) reported there are six specimens in the type series in NHRS. A female specimen of probably Paratettix sagittatus is uploaded under T. sagittarius in OSF (with allotype label). This allotype specimen is not conspecific with the holotype male.

Type locality: The Philippines (without precise locality).

Notes. T. sagittarius is very similar to T. cornculatus , the main diference being lower pronotum and lower fastigial horns in the former. This species probably does not belong to the genus Tegotettix . It is morphologically very different from other species of the genus. It remains a question if it belongs to Scelimenini . Further studies should assess its taxonomic position and whether it is more similar to Xistra or to Scelimenini genera, including Tegotettix . Günther (1938) also reported that T. corniculatus and T. sagittarius are much more similar to Xistra species. We leave the species in Tegotettix for now, until the revision of this genus and Xistra are published.