Gavialidium crocodilum ( Saussure, 1862 )

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 : 31

Gavialidium crocodilum ( Saussure, 1862)

Scelymena (Gavialidium) crododilus: Saussure 1862 .

Gavialidium crocodilum: Bolívar 1887 , Hancock 1910, Blackith 1992, Hollier 2013, Tumbrinck 2014.

Gavialidium crocodilus: Hancock 1904, 1907a , 1907b, 1915, Kirby 1910, 1914, Sandrasagara 1950.

Scelymena (Gavialidium) aligator: Saussure 1862 .

Gavialidium aligator: Bolívar 1887 , Hancock 1904, Hancock 1907a, Kirby 1910, Kirby 1914, Blackith 1988, Hollier 2013.

Type material examined. The type series is composed of 6 male and 3 female specimens (syntypes), deposited in Geneva. Of those, one male and one female syntypes were examined . 1♀ SYNTPYE and 1♂ SYNTYPE Kaduganawa Leg. M. A. Humbert (MHGN). Photographs of the type will soon be available in OSF.

Type locality: Sri Lanka: Central Province: Kandy District: Kadugannawa.

Notes. This is the type species of the genus and it should be examined whenever authors are dealing with Gavialidium . After examination of the type species, it became obvious that most of the species do not belong to this genus. The species has high fastigial horns (lower than G. carli however), wrinkled pronoum with evident projections, very low position of the lateral ocelli (in the level of the lower margin of the compound eye), scutellum as wide or slightly wider than antennal grooves. It is very close to G. carli .