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
31)
Afghanoptera
Ramme, 1952
Characters
. Micropterous, medium sized, fastigium wider than eye width. Pronotum rounded, keel just evident in the metazona, hind margin wide and convex. Tegmina longer than half pronotum, reaching the 2nd tergite; hind femora/pronotum length 3Ƥ: 2.5;
3 X
th tergite broken in the middle by a deep rectangular incision, cerci brodkin-shaped, just incurved, with a small inner teeth in the last fourth. The subgenital plate of the male is narrow and nearly reaches cerci apex. The basal and apical arms of titillators are at right angle. The female is unknown.
Distribution
.
Afghanistan
.
Number of species known
(after
Eades
et al.
2010
): 1)
adusta
Ramme, 1952
(
type
species).