Scelimena floresana Günther, 1955

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 : 49

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4485.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5959667
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scientific name	Scelimena floresana Günther, 1955
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Scelimena floresana Günther, 1955 View in CoL

Scelimena floresana: Günther 1955 View in CoL , Blackith 1992.

Type material examined. 1♂ HOLOTYPE Rana Mese W. Flores 1300 m 21.XI.1949. Leg. Dr Bühler & Dr. Sutter ( NMB) . Photographs of the holotype are available online in OSF.

Type locality: Indonesia: Lesser Sunda Islands: Flores: Rana Mese.

Notes. The species is morphologically close to S. novaeguineae and S. eremita and is thus assigned to Scelimena novaeguinea species group. Concerning distribution, this is the westernmost species of this eastern species group. This colorful species is assigned to S. novaeguineae on the basis of the following morphological traits: FL2, VL, and ML are the strongest projections, humeral angles bear one large dentiform ML, and before it there is one more pair of strong yellowish projections, fore and mid femora are elongated and hind femora have toothed dorsal margin, while ventral margin lacks lappets.