Scelimena rosacea ( Hancock, 1915 )

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 : 44-45

Scelimena rosacea ( Hancock, 1915) , comb. resurr.

Amphibotettix rosaceus: Hancock 1915 , Fletcher 1921, Blackith 1992, Kim & Pham 2014.

Scelimena rosacea: Günther 1938a, 1939 , 1955.

Type material not examined, but the original description was. Male holotype is deposited in Kolkata , in the National Zoological Collection of the Zoological Survey of India.

Notes. Morphology of this species is not well known. Here, we present diagnostic parts of the original description ( Hancock 1915) of the holotype. The species is larger in appearance than Amphibotettix longipes , ventrolateral projections less produced, body yellowish and black, pronotum with rose tints, tubercles and the spines of the lateral lobes rose. Vertex narrower than one of the eyes, narrowed forwards, antennae inserted below the eyes. Pronotum flat above, elongated, irregularly depressed before the shoulders, dorsum smooth, minutely granulate, between the shoulders somewhat elevated, behind the shoulders bearing a pair of obtuse nodes, and further backwards on the base of the hind process with another pair of very obtuse rounded nodes, humeral angles with double carinae, median carina of pronotum very low, anterior margin turned upwards, but not produced in a tubercle. Lateral carinae of the pronotum rose in color, before the shoulders on each side forward near the sulci terminating in a rose-colored spot. Sides of pronotum at the front of lateral lobes produced on each side in a tubercle (= FL2). Anterior and middle femora elongated and narrow, hind femora slender elongate, carinae of hind tibiae strongly dilated, and the first joints of the hind tarsi. the first and second pulvilli small subacute, and widely separated, dividing the article into thirds, the third pulvilli strongly obtuse and flat below ( Hancock 1915). Tentatively, we identified two specimens from Vietnam as this species, but the reference point for further identification should be based on holotype examination, not on our Fig. 13 . The description of the species is similar to that of S. bellula and S. nitidogranulosa , and rather different from that of Amphibotettix [compare Hancock's (1915) description with tabular key to Amphibotettix ], thus we assign the species to the genus Scelimena and to Scelimena bellula species group. This group is morphologically close to Scelimena melli .

Figures

FIGURE 13. Two females of Scelimena rosacea (Hancock, 1915) comb. resurr.—red/orange and yellow color morphs from Tay Yen Tu Nature Reserve (North Vietnam) 10.VII.2013. Photograph by Jerome Constant, reproduced with photographer’s permission.