species

Gavialidium crocodilum (Saussure, 1862)

CollectionObject 1506074; 760a03d6-2e97-43da-8739-417831391bcc: female, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1506074; 760a03d6-2e97-43da-8739-417831391bcc: female, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1506074; 760a03d6-2e97-43da-8739-417831391bcc: female, frontal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1506074; 760a03d6-2e97-43da-8739-417831391bcc: labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1584354; 71d4eaab-82bd-4938-b13a-ff9e38aafd75: female, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1584354; 71d4eaab-82bd-4938-b13a-ff9e38aafd75: female, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1584354; 71d4eaab-82bd-4938-b13a-ff9e38aafd75: female, frontal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1584354; 71d4eaab-82bd-4938-b13a-ff9e38aafd75: labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).

CollectionObject 1584354; 71d4eaab-82bd-4938-b13a-ff9e38aafd75: female, ventral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (27)

Scelymena [sic] (Gavialidium) crocodilus Saussure, 1862: 481.
Syntype; female; 760a03d6-2e97-43da-8739-417831391bcc; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Sri Lanka: Kandy: Kaduganawa. Syntype; female; 71d4eaab-82bd-4938-b13a-ff9e38aafd75; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Sri Lanka: Kandy: Kaduganawa
Scelymena [sic] alligator Saussure, 1862: 483.
Holotype; immature; 2e790f1d-b206-4db0-ae62-26dfe3bb9b13; deposited at: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (MHNG); Sri Lanka: Kandy: Kaduganawa
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Gavialidium crocodilum (Saussure, 1862) in Muhammad, Tan, Abdullah, Azirun, Bhaskar & Skejo, 2018: 31.
Gavialidium crocodilum (Saussure, 1862) in Tumbrinck, 2026: 416.

Nomenclature references (17)

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

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

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.

Sandrasagara, T.R. (1949) A catalogue of the named Ceylonese Tetrigidae, Eumastacidae and Acrididae (Insecta: Orthoptera) in the collection of the Colombo Museum, with records of distribution. Records of the Indian Museum, 47, 135–157. [1950]

Tumbrinck, J. (2014) Taxonomic revision of the Cladonotinae (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) from the islands of South-East Asia and from Australia, with general remarks to the classification and morphology of the Tetrigidae and descriptions of new genera and species from New Guinea and New Caledonia. In Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea. Entomological Society of Latvia, Ed. Dmitry Telnov. Vol. 2, 345–396 (plates 64–91).

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
Vanschuytbroeck, P. (1980) Catalogue et liste du matériel typique des Tetrigidae conservés dans les collections entomologiques de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, 52(22), 1–25. Available at http://biblio.naturalsciences.be/rbins-publications/bulletins-de-linstitut-royal-des-sciences-naturelles-de-belgique-entomologie/52-1980/entomo52-art22.pdf

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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	3	4