Scelimena novaeguineae (Bolivar, 1887)

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 : 48

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4485.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EDC89718-2F45-494A-80F1-A187DA926CC4

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5959661

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0636885F-FF9E-7254-FF74-557BFBE187F7

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scientific name

Scelimena novaeguineae
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Scelimena novaeguineae View in CoL species group

Type species: Gavialidium novaeguinea Bolivar, 1898 (= Scelimena novaeguineae )

Composition and distribution. The group includes three species, S. floresana from Flores, S. eremita from New Guinea, and S. novaeguineae , also from New Guinea.

Notes. This group inhabits the easternmost part of the Scelimena distribution and is characterized by robust appearance, strong frontolateral projections, strong metalateral projection (produced as bilobate or simple triangular plate or spine), tubercles behind the metalateral on the lateral carinae, and hind femora with minute teeth on the dorsal margin. The group is related to eastern Scelimena producta species group.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Tetrigidae

Genus

Scelimena

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