Tegotettix corniculatus ( Stål, 1877 )

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 : 57

Tegotettix corniculatus ( Stål, 1877)

Tettix corniculatus: Stål 1877 , Casto de Elera 1895.

Xistra corniculata: Bolívar 1887 , Kirby 1910, Bruner 1915.

Tegotettix corniculatus: Günther 1937, 1938 , Steinmann 1970, Blackith 1992.

Type material examined. 1♂ HOLOTYPE Ins. Phillipp. Leg. Semper (NHRS). Photographs of the holotype are available online in OSF.

Type locality: The Philippines (without precise locality).

Notes. This species probably does not belong to the genus Tegotettix . It is morphologically very different from other species of the genus. It remains a question if it belongs to Scelimenini . Further studies should assess its taxonomic position and whether it is more similar to Xistra or to Scelimenini genera, including Tegotettix . Günther (1938) also reported that T. corniculatus and T. sagittarius are much more similar to Xistra species. We leave the species in Tegotettix for now, until the revision of this genus and Xistra are published.