Euscelimena 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 : 22

Genus Euscelimena Günther, 1938

Euscelimena: Günther 1938a, 1955 , Blackith 1992, Yin et al. 1996, Otte 1997, Gupta & Chandra 2018, Skejo et al. 2018. Abbasia: Kirby 1914 , Hebard 1930.

Type species: Scelymena gavialis Saussure, 1862 .

Composition and distribution. Three species in Sri Lanka ( E. logani , E. gavialis ) and India ( E. harpago , E. gavialis ).

Notes. Members of the genus inhabit India and Sri Lanka. The genus is composed of three species and is well defined. Diagnostic characters of the genus are (I) a narrow vertex (as opposed to wide in most of other Scelimenini ), (II) lack of frontomedial projection, while other projections low, (III) dentate lower margin of the hind femora (as opposed to smooth), (IV) short prozona, and (V) very widened, lamellate hind tibiae and first tarsal segments. Euscelimena harpago is widespread in India, E. gavialis restricted to southern India and Sri Lanka, while E. logani is endemic to Sri Lanka ( Blackith, 1992, Skejo et al., 2018). Taxonomic placement is not clear and should be clarified in future. Taxonomy and nomenclature of the genus have been very dynamic, a lot of nymphs were described as new species in the past, and careful examination of large series is suggested for good identification to species level.