Scelimena dentiumeris (Hancock, 1907)

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 : 50

Scelimena dentiumeris (Hancock, 1907)

Eugavialidium dentiumeris: Hancock 1907a , Kirby 1910, Günther 1935.

Scelimena dentiumeris: Günther 1938a , Otte 1979, Liang & Zheng 1998, Deng 2016.

Indocscelimena dentiumeris: Blackith 1992 .

Scelimena cf. dentiumeris [misidentification of S. hexodon ]: Tan & Wahab 2018.

Type material not examined. According to Hancock (1907) the type series consists of two syntype females. According to OSF, holotype female is deposited in Philadelphia.

Type locality: According to OSF the type locality is Borneo: Brunei, but in the original description, only 'Borneo' is mentioned, without precise locality.

Notes. Morphology and ecology of this species are not well known. Important parts of the original Hancock's (1907) description are presented: Body yellowish, ML projections yellow. Vertex distinctly wider than one eye. Pronotum with pale colored projections, depressed behind the shoulders, humeral angles armed with triangular tubercle (= ML) on each side, and with evidence of indistinct tubercles forwards on the carinae, VL is strong simple spine directed forwards, femora elongated, ventral margin of the hind femora minutely toothed. The species is tentatively assigned to Scelimena producta species group. Günther (1938) reported two females from Middle Borneo. Günther (1938) reported that these females have pronotum length 21.5 and 22 mm, ratio of the width of an eye compared to vertex width is 22:25. Günther (1938) noted that the specimens are quite similar in appearance to typical S. producta , but the metalateral tubercles are stronger, and ventrolateral projection is stronger. Hancock (1907) reported pronotum length 24.2–25 mm, and Günther (1938) reported a female, also collected by Siebers in 1925 in the Middle East Borneo, with a pronotum length of 27 mm, monochrome brown in color, generally resembling other specimens, but after the ML projections there are 3–4 smaller tubercles on the lateral carinae.