Scelimena eremita (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 : 48

Scelimena eremita (Günther, 1938)

Eugavialidium eremitum: Günther 1938c .

Scelimena eremita Günther 1938a, 1955 , Steinmann 1970, Tumbrinck 2018.

Gavialidium eremitum: Blackith 1992 .

Type material examined. 1♀ SYNTYPE D[eutsch]. Neu-Guinea Kai-Inland 50–70 km landeinwärts westlich von Finschhafen I.[19]09- Leg. Prof. S. Neuhauss (MfN), 1♀ SYNTYPE D[eutsch]. Neu-Guinea Kai-Inland 50–70 km landeinwärts westlich von Finschhafen I.[19]09- Leg. Prof. S. Neuhauss (MTD). Photographs of the female syntypes are available in OSF.

Type locality: New Guinea: Papua New Guinea: Morobe Province: Huon Peninsula : 50–70 km W of Finschhafen .

Notes. The species was transferred back to the genus Scelimena by Tumbrinck (2018). It does not share morphological similarities with Gavialidium species from India and Sri Lanka, but to Scelimena species from the islands of SE Asia—e.g., Scelimena producta species group. Together with S. novaeguineae , this species is related to S. floresana (Tumbrinck, 2018) . Characters that imply placement within Scelimena (sensu Tumbrinck, 2018) are: vertex lacking fastigial horns (as opposed to presence in Gavialidium ), pronotum without net-like elevations (as opposed to Gavialidium in which pronotal projections are wrinkled, and pronotum is rich in net like elevations), strong FL2 and ML (as oposed to weak and tuberculated), and simple VL (as opposed to bi- or trilobate), and finally dilated hind tibiae and tarsi (not widened in Gavialidium ). Morphology and variability of the species are discussed in Tumbrinck (2018)—it has smaller distribution area than its congener from New Guinea. Tumbrinck (2018) discussed taxonomic placement of this species, and having our unpublished manuscript, agreed that it should be placed within Scelimena (thus in his paper Scelimena eremita was reported as new combination).