Tegotettix tuberculatus ( 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 : 59

Tegotettix tuberculatus ( Bolívar, 1887)

Gavialidium tuberculatum: Bolívar 1887 , París 1994.

Eugavialidium tuberculatum: Hancock 1907a , Kirby 1910.

Tegotettix tuberculatus: Günther 1938a , Steinmann 1970, París 1994, Otte 1997.

Scelimena tuberculatum: Otte 1997 .

Type material examined. 1♀ LECTOTYPE Minahassa Leg. Stauding (MNCN). Photos of the lectotype female will be soon available online in OSF.

Type locality: Indonesia: Sulawesi: Minahassa Peninsula.

Notes. The species is similar to T. celebenis , but the pronotum is more smooth (less granulated and warty), vertex is slightly narrower, and MM1 is lower. Other morphological characters are very similar and future studies should determine if those species are synonymous.