Indoscelimena india (Hancock, 1907) Muhammad & Tan & Abdullah & Azirun & Bhaskar & Skejo, 2018

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

Indoscelimena india (Hancock, 1907) , comb. nov.

Scelimena india: Hancock 1907b , Kirby 1910, Kirby 1914, Günther 1938a, Steinmann 1970, Otte 1979, Shishodia & Hazra 1985, Blackith 1992, Shishodia 1995, Shishodia et al. 2010, Storozhenko & Dawwrueng 2015, Zha et al. 2017.

Eugavialidium indicum: Hancock 1915 .

Type material not examined. Hancock (1907b) wrote about two specimens of S. india , but without mentioning their sex. However, according to measurements provided (length of body entire, male 19.5 mm, pronotum 18 mm, posterior femora 7 mm) it is probable that those are two male syntypes. The type (or types?) are deposited in Philadelphia and according to OSF, there is a male holotype.

Type locality: India: Assam: Cherrapunjee [ Cherapunji in Hancock (1907b)].

Notes. In original description Hancock (1907b) wrote that the species is like S. producta [tentative comparison] but stouter, pronotal carinae have yellow markings, vertex is almost equal in width to one eye, anterior margin of the pronotum is somewhat angular, pronotum is extended beyond the knees almost to tibial apices, dorsum granulated, depressed and uneven, humeral angles unarmed (no ML), behind the shoulders bifossulate, with a pair of rounded slightly nodules, posterior process stout at the base and acuminate toward the apex, anterior margin of the pronotum little protuberant and subtuberculate (present FM), lateral lobes' anterior margin armed with small tubercles, while the posterior laminate outwards, and armed with a distinct, acute spine directed transversely but little curved forward. Hind femora without teeth. Hind tibiae and the first segment of the posterior tarsi less dilated than in S. producta . According to this description, it is clear that the species is closer to Indoscelimena species than to Scelimena , and is thus transferred to the genus Indoscelimena . We have examined a male specimen from Assam that fits Hancock's description (from Khasi Hills, examined in MNCN Madrid), and a male collected in India recently (by H. Song, Fig. 12 ), and assigned them to this species.

Figures

FIGURE 12. Male of Indoscelimena india (Hancock, 1907) comb. nov. from northeastern India. Photograph by Hojun Song, reproduced with photographer's permission. Scale bar 1 cm.