Scelimena discalis ( 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 : 46

Scelimena discalis ( Hancock, 1915)

Eugavialidium discalis: Hancock 1915 .

Scelimena discalis: Günther 1938a, 1955 , Steinmann 1970, Otte 1979, Shishodia 1991, Blackith 1992, Shishodia et al. 2010, Storozhenko & Dawwrueng 2015, Zha et al. 2017.

Type material not examined. According to the original description it is not specified how many males and females make the type series ( Hancock 1915). OSF, however reports male holotype to be deposited in Philadelphia.

Type locality: India: Assam: Sivasagar [= Sibsagar in Hancock (1915)].

Notes. This is the type species of Scelimena discalis species group. It is characteristic in wide vertex, and nodulated pronotal and femoral carinae. It is morphologically similar to S. gombakensis . Differences are reported in the diagnosis of S. gombakensis . Two specimens were examined in Tumbrinck's collection (a male and a female from Thailand: Khao Yai NP X.1990. Leg. S. Ingrisch). Identification in future should be based on comparison with type specimens.