Scelimena hexodon ( Haan, 1843 ), 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 : 47

Scelimena hexodon ( Haan, 1843) , comb. resurr.

Acridium (Tetrix) hexodon: Haan 1843 .

Scelimena hexodon: Hancock 1907a , Kirby 1910.

Hexocera hexodon: Hancock 1915 , Günther 1938a, 1955, Blackith 1992, Skejo & Caballero 2016.

Eugavialidium hexodon: Willemse 1928 .

Hexocera sexspicata: Hancock 1915 .

Scelimena cf. dentiumeris [misidentification]: Tan & Wahab 2018.

Type material examined. 1♀ HOLOTYPE Sakoembang ( NCB). The photographs of the holotype are available in OSF. Type material of Hexocera sexspicata was not examined. According to Hancock (1915) the type series of H. sexspicata is composed of a single male holotype from Borneo: Sabah: Sandakan, deposited in the collections of the Zoological Survey of India in Kolkata.

Type locality: Indonesia: Borneo (Kalimatan): Meratus Mt. Range: Gunung Sakoembang.

Notes. Among Scelimena species, S. hexodon is the species of the highest pronotal projections—VL, ML and MM1 are strongly projected as high and sharp spines. It is the type species of the Scelimena hexodon species group. S. hexodon is related to S. marta . Specimen from Brunei reported by Tan et al. (2018) as Scelimena dentiumeris belong to this species.