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Species

Euscelimena gavialis (Saussure, 1862)

CollectionObject 1506079; 6817b774-af83-4e53-8b0e-f320485e8625: female, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506079; 6817b774-af83-4e53-8b0e-f320485e8625: female, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506079; 6817b774-af83-4e53-8b0e-f320485e8625: female, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506079; 6817b774-af83-4e53-8b0e-f320485e8625: female, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506079; 6817b774-af83-4e53-8b0e-f320485e8625: female, frontal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506079; 6817b774-af83-4e53-8b0e-f320485e8625: labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506079; 6817b774-af83-4e53-8b0e-f320485e8625: labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506079; 6817b774-af83-4e53-8b0e-f320485e8625: female, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506079; 6817b774-af83-4e53-8b0e-f320485e8625: female, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506079; 6817b774-af83-4e53-8b0e-f320485e8625: female, frontal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1506079; 6817b774-af83-4e53-8b0e-f320485e8625: female, ventral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517925; f3380d8a-2646-4e57-a393-224113b774bc, NHMUK010362933: female, lateral view (holotype of Scelymena nodosa). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517925; f3380d8a-2646-4e57-a393-224113b774bc, NHMUK010362933: female, lateral view (holotype of Scelymena nodosa). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517925; f3380d8a-2646-4e57-a393-224113b774bc, NHMUK010362933: female, lateral view (holotype of Scelymena nodosa). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517925; f3380d8a-2646-4e57-a393-224113b774bc, NHMUK010362933: female, dorsal view (holotype of Scelymena nodosa). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517925; f3380d8a-2646-4e57-a393-224113b774bc, NHMUK010362933: female, dorsal view (holotype of Scelymena nodosa). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517925; f3380d8a-2646-4e57-a393-224113b774bc, NHMUK010362933: female, dorsal view (holotype of Scelymena nodosa). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517925; f3380d8a-2646-4e57-a393-224113b774bc, NHMUK010362933: female, frontal view (holotype of Scelymena nodosa). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517925; f3380d8a-2646-4e57-a393-224113b774bc, NHMUK010362933: labels (holotype of Scelymena nodosa). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517925; f3380d8a-2646-4e57-a393-224113b774bc, NHMUK010362933: labels (holotype of Scelymena nodosa). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517927; 0c033afe-404b-41f0-ab6f-210ecbbfdcb8, NHMUK010924485: male nymph, lateral view (holotype of Abbasia subserrata). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517927; 0c033afe-404b-41f0-ab6f-210ecbbfdcb8, NHMUK010924485: male nymph, lateral view (holotype of Abbasia subserrata). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517927; 0c033afe-404b-41f0-ab6f-210ecbbfdcb8, NHMUK010924485: male nymph, lateral view (holotype of Abbasia subserrata). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517927; 0c033afe-404b-41f0-ab6f-210ecbbfdcb8, NHMUK010924485: male nymph, lateral view (holotype of Abbasia subserrata). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517927; 0c033afe-404b-41f0-ab6f-210ecbbfdcb8, NHMUK010924485: male nymph, dorsal view (holotype of Abbasia subserrata). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1517927; 0c033afe-404b-41f0-ab6f-210ecbbfdcb8, NHMUK010924485: labels (holotype of Abbasia subserrata). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1579628; d1cb53b7-915d-4ec0-9a5e-69ea40ccf149: labels. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1579628; d1cb53b7-915d-4ec0-9a5e-69ea40ccf149: dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1579628; d1cb53b7-915d-4ec0-9a5e-69ea40ccf149: lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1580138; bb2e654e-a60e-4923-ab80-5a27cdf69bb6: female, lateral view (topotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1580138; bb2e654e-a60e-4923-ab80-5a27cdf69bb6: female, dorsal view (topotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1584365; d8859d78-2595-4daf-8ec8-12feccf0206f: female, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1584365; d8859d78-2595-4daf-8ec8-12feccf0206f: female, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1584365; d8859d78-2595-4daf-8ec8-12feccf0206f: female, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1584365; d8859d78-2595-4daf-8ec8-12feccf0206f: female, frontal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1584365; d8859d78-2595-4daf-8ec8-12feccf0206f: labels. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1584366; a5438338-1758-496c-ba69-040b6518d2dc: female, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1584366; a5438338-1758-496c-ba69-040b6518d2dc: female, lateral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1584366; a5438338-1758-496c-ba69-040b6518d2dc: female, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1584366; a5438338-1758-496c-ba69-040b6518d2dc: female, frontal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1584366; a5438338-1758-496c-ba69-040b6518d2dc: labels. (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (34)

  • Scelymena [sic] gavialis Saussure, 1862: 485. (valid)

    Syntype; female; 6817b774-af83-4e53-8b0e-f320485e8625; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Sri Lanka

  • Scelymena [sic] nodosa Walker, 1871: 840.

    Holotype; female; NHMUK010362933; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); Sri Lanka

  • Euscelimena gavialis (Saussure, 1862) in Muhammad, Tan, Abdullah, Azirun, Bhaskar & Skejo, 2018: 23.
  • Euscelimena gavialis (Saussure, 1862) in Tumbrinck, 2026: 415.

References (24)

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  • Saussure, H.L.F.de (1862) Etudes sur quelques orthoptères du Musée de Genève. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France, 1, 469–494. [1861] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34164
  • Walker, F. (1871) Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. London, Vol. 5, 811–850 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34094
  • Bolívar, I. (1887) Essai sur les Acridiens de la tribu des Tettigidae. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique, 31, 175–313. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44636#page/675/mode/1up
  • Hancock, J.L. (1904) The Tettigidae of Ceylon. Spolia Zeylanica, 2, 97–157.
  • Hancock, J.L. (1907) Orthoptera Fam. Acridiidae. Subfam. Tetriginae. In Genera Insectorum. P. Wytsman [Ed.]. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles. Vol. 48, 1–79 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105990#page/23/mode/1up
  • Hancock, J.L. (1907) Studies of the Tetriginae (Orthoptera) in the Oxford University Museum. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, 1907, 213–244, pl. 21. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/48288#page/425/mode/1up
  • Hancock, J.L. (1910) Notes on Ceylonese Tetriginae (Orthoptera), with description of some new species. Spolia Zeylanica, 6(24), 140–149.
  • Kirby, W.F. (1910) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera (Orthoptera Saltatoria, Locustidae vel Acridiidae). British Museum (Natural History), London, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 674 pp. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29660
  • Kirby, W.F. (1914) Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Orthoptera (Acrididae). London, 276 pp. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/orthopteraacridi00kirbiala
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  • Uvarov, B.P. (1927) Some Orthoptera of the families Mantidae, Tettigoniidae and Acrididae from Ceylon. Spolia Zeylanica, 14(1), 85–114.
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  • Günther, K. (1938) Revision der Acrydiinae, I. Sectiones Tripetalocerae, Discotettigiae, Lophotettigiae, Cleostrateae, Bufonidae, Cladonotae, Scelimenae verae. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 23, 299–437.
  • Steinmann, H. (1970) Check-list of the Tetricidae (Orthoptera) of the Oriental faunal region. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 16, 215–240.
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  • Blackith, R.E. (1992) Tetrigidae (Insecta; Orthoptera) of Southeast Asia: Annotated catalogue with partial translated keys and bibliography. JAPAGA, Wicklow, Ireland, i-liv, 1–248.
  • Otte, D. (1997) Orthoptera Species File 6. Tetrigoidea and Tridactyloidea (Orthoptera: Caelifera) and Addenda to OSF Vols. 1-5. The Orthopterists' Society and The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 261 pp.
  • Shishodia, M.S., Chandra, K. & Gupta, S.K. (2010) An annotated checklist of Orthoptera (Insecta) from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Miscellaneous Publication, Occasional Paper, 314, 1–366. Available at http://indiabiodiversity.org/biodiv/content/documents/document-9a5b06fa-7416-49a2-98d7-541bfbfbeaaf/239.pdf
  • Hollier, J.A. (2013) An annotated list of the Orthoptera (Insecta) species described by Henri de Saussure, with an account of the primary type material housed in the Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Genève. Part 4: The Acridomorpha excluding the superfamily Acridoidea. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 120(2), 203–219. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/203304#page/33/mode/1up
  • Muhammad, A.A., Tan, M.K., Abdullah, N.A., Azirun, M.S., Bhaskar, D. & Skejo, J. (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), 1–70.
  • Skejo, J., Gupta, S.K. & Tumbrinck, J. (2018) Nymph inadvertently described as new species for a fourth time? On the identity of Euscelimena hardi (Tetrigidae: Scelimeninae) with general remarks on the identification of pygmy grasshopper nymphs. Zootaxa, 4418(1), 93–97.
  • Tumbrinck, J. (2026) Review of all Tetrigidae species described from 1758 to 1886. Zootaxa, 5845(3), 401–455. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5845.3.1

Descendants and synonyms

Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

After Gavialis (a genus of crocodyles).

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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