Paramphibotettix 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 : 38-39

Genus Paramphibotettix Günther, 1938

Paramphibotettix: Günther 1938a , Blackith 1992, Zheng 1994, Yin et al. 1996, Otte 1997.

Type species: Scelimena sanguinolenta Bolívar, 1887

Composition and distribution. Three species distributed in Java ( P. sanguinolentus ), Sumatra ( P. lieftincki ), and Myanmar ( P. multidentatus ).

Notes. The genus cannot be easily defined at its validity is in question. The three species belonging to the genus are not very related to each other. Paramphibotettix lieftincki Günther, 1938 from Sumatra resembles Scelimena species (e.g., Scelimena hexodon species group) and should probably be assigned to Scelimena . However, a more comprehensive study is necessary to conclude on its taxonomic position. Paramphibotettix sanguinolentus ( Bolívar, 1887) from Java resembles some Scelimena species, from Scelimena nitidogranulosa , but differs in absence of the pronotal projection, except for medium sized frontomedial. The type species of the genus does not share a lot of morphological characters with P. multidentatus ( Hancock, 1915) from Myanmar. P. multidentatus looks similar to Indoscelimena and could belong to this genus. Diagnostic characters in the tabular key were adjusted to fulfill the morphology of the type species, while for other two species more taxonomic work is needed to enlighten their position.