Indoscelimena saussurei ( Hancock, 1915 )

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 : 35-36

Indoscelimena saussurei ( Hancock, 1915)

Eugavialidium saussurei: Hancock 1915 .

Indoscelimena saussurei: Günther 1938a , Steinmann 1970, Otte 1979, Shishodia 1991, Blackith 1992, Shishodia et al. 2010. Type material not examined. In the original paper, number of specimens or their sex were not precised, but measurements were only given for a male. In OSF it is written that in Philadelphia one holotype male is deposited. We do not know if type series include more specimens.

Type locality: India: Kolkata.

Notes. Description of this species ( Hancock 1915) agrees more that of Indoscelimena than that of Euscelimena or Scelimena— ventral margins of the hind femora are not armed, vertex is about the same width as the compound eye, hind tibia is moderately widened, while the first tarsal segment very little or not at all. Furthermore, ventrolateral projection is not strong, but weakly produced and bearing weak spine. Because of those characters and because of biogeographic affinity, we agree that the species is member of Indoscelimena . However, examination of more specimens is needed. Hancock (1915) wrote that the species is very similar to I. angulata , but it is also to I. india .