Scelimena melli 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 : 44

Scelimena melli Günther, 1938

Scelimena melli: Günther 1938a, 1939 , 1955, Blackith 1992, Zheng & Jiang 1994, Liang & Zheng 1998, Jiang & Liang 2004, Zheng 2004, Zheng 2005, Deng et al. 2007, Deng et al. 2015, Deng 2016, Ding et al. 2017.

Scelimena meili: Jiang & Zheng 1998 .

Paracriotettix zhengi: Liang 2002 , Deng 2016; syn. nov.

Scelimena mellioides: Deng 2016 ; syn. nov.

Type material examined. 1♀ HOLOTYPE and 1♂ PARATYPE ( S. melli ) China: Canton Leg. S.V. Mell , 1♀ PARATYPE ( S. melli ) China: Tsa-jiu-san IX.[19]10. Leg. S. V. Mell ( MfN). Photographs of the types are available in OSF . 1♂ HOLOTYPE ( Paracriotettix zhengi ) PR China: Guangdong: Xinyi Dawuling 6.VII.1988. Leg. Fenglong Jia ( Type depository not known). Those specimens were also reported by Deng (2016) . 1♀ HOLOTYPE or PARATYPE ( S. mellioides ) Sichuan: Ya'an: Zhougongshan Mt. 1100 m a.s.l.

Notes. Holotype of Paracriotettix zhengi is in fact badly molted S. melli with deformed pronotal process. Head and pronotal morphology is the same so we synonymize P. zhengi with S. melli . The species is here assigned to Scelimena bellula species group because of smooth pronotal surface and lack of strong pronotal projections and colorful appearance. Morphology and ecology of this species were discussed recently (Zha et al., 2017). Type specimen photographs of S. mellioides female ( Deng 2016) completely fit morphology of S. melli . S. melli is widespread in China and known from Guangxi (Jinxiu, Rongshui, Longsheng, Xing'an, Guilin, Longzhou), Guizhou (Jiangkou, Chishui, Xi), Guangdong (Bolo, Qujiang, Ruyuan) and finally Sichuan, from where S. mellioides was described. Thus, we synonymize S. mellioides with S. melli .