species

Euscelimena gavialis (Saussure, 1862)

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CollectionObject 1584365; d8859d78-2595-4daf-8ec8-12feccf0206f: female, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).

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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
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Scelymena [sic] gavialis Saussure, 1862 (subjective synonym of Tetrix harpago Serville, 1838) in Bolívar, 1887: 217.
Scelimena gavialis Saussure, 1862 in Hancock, 1904: 117-120.
Scelimena gavialis Saussure, 1862 in Hancock, 1907: 24.
Scelimena gavialis Saussure, 1862 in Hancock, 1907: 218.
Scelimena gavialis Saussure, 1862 in Hancock, 1910: 141.
Scelimena gavialis Saussure, 1862 in Kirby, 1910: 13.
Abbasia subserrata Kirby, 1914: 28.
Holotype; immature; NHMUK010924485; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); India: Kerala: Tenmalai, Travancore, W side of Western Ghats
Scelymena [sic] nodosa Walker, 1871 (subjective synonym of Scelymena [sic] gavialis Saussure, 1862) in Kirby, 1914: 24.
Scelimena gavialis Saussure, 1862 in Kirby, 1914: 24.
Scelimena spinata Hancock, 1915: 66.
Holotype; male; d01aca2d-5b1f-4a61-ae81-2e014ea981f7; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); India: Kerala: Travancore, Trivandrum [Thiruvananthapuram]
Scelimena gavialis Saussure, 1862 in Hancock, 1915: 66.
Abbasia subserrata Kirby, 1914 (subjective synonym of Tetrix harpago Serville, 1838) in Uvarov, 1927: 113.
Scelimena spinata Hancock, 1915 (subjective synonym of Abbasia subserrata Kirby, 1914) in Hebard, 1930: 573.
Scelimena spinata Hancock, 1915 (subjective synonym of Abbasia subserrata Kirby, 1914) in Günther, 1938: 364.
Euscelimena subserrata (Kirby, 1914) in Günther, 1938: 364.
Euscelimena gavialis (Saussure, 1862) in Günther, 1938: 363, 365.
Euscelimena gavialis (Saussure, 1862) in Steinmann, 1970: 220.
Scelimena spinata Hancock, 1915 in Otte, 1979: 41, 45.
Scelimena gavialis Saussure, 1862 in Blackith, 1988: 107.
Abbasia subserrata Kirby, 1914 (subjective synonym of Scelymena [sic] gavialis Saussure, 1862) in Blackith, 1992: 70.
Scelimena spinata Hancock, 1915 (subjective synonym of Scelymena [sic] gavialis Saussure, 1862) in Blackith, 1992: 70.
Scelymena [sic] nodosa Walker, 1871 (subjective synonym of Scelymena [sic] gavialis Saussure, 1862) in Blackith, 1992: 70.
Euscelimena gavialis (Saussure, 1862) in Blackith, 1992: 70.
Euscelimena subserrata (Kirby, 1914) in Otte, 1997: 79.
Euscelimena gavialis (Saussure, 1862) in Shishodia, Chandra & Gupta, 2010: 162.
Euscelimena gavialis (Saussure, 1862) in Hollier, 2013: 210.
Abbasia subserrata Kirby, 1914 (subjective synonym of Scelymena [sic] gavialis Saussure, 1862) in Muhammad, Tan, Abdullah, Azirun, Bhaskar & Skejo, 2018: 23.
Scelimena spinata Hancock, 1915 (subjective synonym of Scelymena [sic] gavialis Saussure, 1862) in Muhammad, Tan, Abdullah, Azirun, Bhaskar & Skejo, 2018: 23.
Scelymena [sic] nodosa Walker, 1871 (subjective synonym of Scelymena [sic] gavialis Saussure, 1862) in Muhammad, Tan, Abdullah, Azirun, Bhaskar & Skejo, 2018: 23.
Abbasia subserrata Kirby, 1914 (subjective synonym of Scelymena [sic] gavialis Saussure, 1862) in Skejo, Gupta & Tumbrinck, 2018: 95.

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

Nomenclature references (24)

Blackith, R.E. (1988) The Tetrigidae (Orthoptera) of Sri Lanka. Entomologica Scandinavica, Suppl. 30, 93–109, illustr.
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.
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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

de Saussure, H. (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

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.

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.

Hancock, J.L. (1915) V. Indian Tetriginae (Acrydiinae). Records of the Indian Museum, 11, 55–137. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41760#page/91/mode/1up

Hebard, M. (1930) Acrydiinae (Orthoptera, Acrididae) of Southern India. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 36, 565–592. [1929] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/148558#page/615/mode/1up

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

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

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.

Otte, D. (1979) The primary types of Orthoptera (Saltatoria, Blattodea, Phasmatodea, and Mantodea) at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 130, 26–87. [1978]

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.

Serville, J.G.A. (1838) Histoire naturelle des insectes. Orthoptères. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris, i-xviii, 1–776, pl. 1–14. [1839] Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/54314

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

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.

Steinmann, H. (1970) Check-list of the Tetricidae (Orthoptera) of the Oriental faunal region. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 16, 215–240.

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

Uvarov, B.P. (1927) Some Orthoptera of the families Mantidae, Tettigoniidae and Acrididae from Ceylon. Spolia Zeylanica, 14(1), 85–114.
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

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.
Taxon	Valid names
Rank	Extant	Fossil	Invalid	Total
species	1	0	6	7