Elimaea (Rhaebelimaea)

Tan, Ming Kai, Baroga-Barbecho, Jessica B. & Yap, Sheryl A., 2019, An account on the Orthoptera from Siargao Island (Southeast Asia: Philippines: Mindanao), Zootaxa 4609 (1), pp. 1-30 : 4

Elimaea (Rhaebelimaea) c.f. puncticosta Bolívar, 1914 or bakeri Hebard, 1922

(Tettigonioidea: Phaneropteridae : Phaneropterinae )

Material examined. 1 female (Siargao18_19), Barangay Katipunan, Del Carmen, N9.87594, E126.00983, 28.5± 5.6 m, 7 April 2018, 2041 hours.

Nearly impossible to identify the species based on a single female specimen in this speciose genus. We tentatively identified our specimen to either E. (R.) puncticosta or bakeri , both of which occur in Leyte and Mindanao areas (Ingrisch, 1998a). There is an image of E. (R.) puncticosta collected from Siargao in OSF ( Cigliano et al., 2019), although strangely, this species was also recorded in Himalaya (with specimen lost). Type specimen is also apparently missing ( Cigliano et al., 2019). The female was not known for E. (R.) bakeri so we could not confirm the species name of our specimen.