Amphibotettix Hancock, 1906

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 : 17

Genus Amphibotettix Hancock, 1906

Amphibotettix: Hancock 1906 , Hancock 1907a, Kirby 1910, Hancock 1915, Günther 1942, 1955, Blackith 1992, Yin et al. 1996, Otte 1997, Storozhenko & Dawwrueng 2015.

Amphybotettix (misspelling): Steinmann 1970.

Type species: Amphibotettix longipes Hancock, 1906

Composition and distribution. Three species in Borneo ( A. longipes ), Peninsular Malaysia ( A. hafizhaii ), and (?) Thailand ( A. abbotti ). One species ( A. rosaceus ) transferred back to Scelimena .

Notes. The type species of the genus, A. longipes Hancock, 1906 ( Fig. 7 ), endemic to Borneo, shares some morphological characters with Ophiotettigini genera and some with Guinean Batrachideinae (specifically Palaioscaria ). Its affinity to those groups should be revisited in the future. Position of its antennal grooves are much higher than in other Scelimenini , its legs are longer and without teeth, and morphology of vertex is rather different from Scelimenini . Amphibotettix abbotti ( Rehn, 1904) , endemic to Thailand, was assigned to this genus by Hancock (1907), but without discussion on new combination. This species was not examined since, and its affinity to other congeners is questionable. Amphibotettix hafizhaii ( Mahmood, Idris & Salmah, 2007) , endemic to Peninsular Malaysia, was assigned to this genus by Storozhenko & Dawwrueng (2015) based on a drawing from Mahmood et al. (2007) depicting long frontal projection of the pronotum. Its placement remains questionable until the specimens are examined. Amphibotettix rosaceus Hancock, 1915 ( Fig. 13 ) from Vietnam and Myanmar, was described as Amphibotettix ( Hancock, 1915) , then moved to Scelimena based on similarities with S. producta and S. nitidogranulosa (Günther, 1938) , and then put back into Amphibotettix . The species belongs to Scelimena ( S. rosacea comb. resurr.) based on lack of frontomedial projection, femora not strongly elongated, and antennal grooves being situated lower than in the type speces.

Figures

FIGURE 7. Female (A, B) and male (C, D) Amphibotettix logipes Hancock, 1906 from North Borneo, collected by John Waterstradt (MNCN Madrid). Scale bar 1 cm. Photographs by Josip Skejo & Dhaneesh Bhaskar.

FIGURE 13. Two females of Scelimena rosacea (Hancock, 1915) comb. resurr.—red/orange and yellow color morphs from Tay Yen Tu Nature Reserve (North Vietnam) 10.VII.2013. Photograph by Jerome Constant, reproduced with photographer’s permission.