Gavialidium carli Hebard, 1930

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 carli Hebard, 1930 , comb. resurr.

Gavialidium carli: Hebard 1930 , Günther 1938a, Steinmann 1970, Blackith 1992, Shishodia et al. 2010, Hollier & Heads 2014. Bidentatettix carli: Storozhenko & Paik 2011 .

Type material not examined, but the drawings of the type ( Hebard 1930) and the original description were. The type series is composed of a female holotype, a male allotype, two more male paratypes, and one more female paratype. The type series is deposited in MHNG Geneva.

Type locality: India: Tamil Nadu: Nilgiris : Gudalur.

Notes. The species is very close in morphology to G. crocodilum . It differs from Sri Lankan G. crocodilum by larger size and more robust appearance, longer fastigial horns (projected beyond the eyes), stronger pronotal projections and hind femora femora strongly lamellate and serrate. Hebard (1930) writes that by the robust appearance, the species is close to G. aligator , which is considered later synonym of G. crocodilus . The species is much more similar to G. crocodilum than to Bidentatettix species. Species of the later genus have much stronger and toothed pronotum carinae, their vertex is wider, and they do not belong to the same biogeographic region. Thus, we move the species back to the genus Gavialidium . The original description ( Hebard 1930) is well written and can serve as good basis for comparison, until the specimens are available for examination.