Supraspecific taxonomy of Palaearctic Platycleidini with unarmed prosternum: a morphological approach (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniinae)
Author
Massa, Bruno
Author
Fontana, Paolo
text
Zootaxa
2011
2837
1
47
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.296570
51d302cc-a68c-4c73-a2a1-37d9f48af87c
1175-5326
296570
20)
Zeuneriana
Ramme, 1951
(
Figs. 31
,
90
, 110)
Characters
. Head just larger than long, ratio maximum width/length of head (from vertex to clipeus): 1.1-1.2. Micropterous, pronotum flat, borders rounded, humeral excision just evident, keel present in the metazona; Ƥ subgenital plate with hind margin broadly and deeply emarginate, terminal lobes long; ovipositor short, stout; hind femora/pronotum length 3: 2.7–3.1, Ƥ: 3.0–3.5;
3 X
th tergite broad, incised in the middle, with two short triangular processes, cerci short, stout and toothed at the base or proximally. Colour of lateral lobes of the pronotum is blackish or greenish; the white stripe is absent.
Remarks
. Ƥ subgenital plate and
3 X
th tergite consent to separate it from related taxa (cf. also
Kleukers
et al.
1997
).
Distribution
. S Europe.
Note
. This genus was named after the Anglo-German orthopterist F. E. Zeuner.
Number of species known
(after
Eades
et al.
2010
): 4: 1)
abbreviata
(Serville, 1838)
; 2)
amplipennis
(Brunner von
Wattenwyl, 1882
); 3)
burriana
(Uvarov, 1935)
; 4)
marmorata
(Fieber, 1853)
(
type
species).