First record of grey bush-cricket Platycleis albopunctata (Goeze, 1778) (Tettigoniidae: Tettigoniini) on the agricultural crops from Trans Himalaya India
Author
Farooqi, Mohd Kaleemullah
Author
Ali, Mohd
Author
Amir, Mohammad
mohd. amir 1966 @ gmail. com
Author
Usmani, Mohd Kamil
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-03-28
5120
3
435
442
journal article
20098
10.11646/zootaxa.5120.3.9
18a70244-981f-49f1-a2b7-ba0bd3c84217
1175-5326
6389592
64C539AE-FC3B-4997-9E5B-7F37E4EFFF88
Genus
Platycleis
Fieber. 1853
Platycleis
Fieber. 1853
.
Lotos
3:149.
Type
species:
Locusta grisea
Fabricius. 1781
.
Species Insectorum
1:359.
Platycleis
Herman, O. 1874
.
Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien
24:199, 207.
Platycleis
Finot. 1883
. Les
Orthoptères de la
France
92, 114.
Platycleis
Ragge. 1990
.
Bull. Br.
Mus
. (Nat. Hist.) Ent
. 59(1):9, 13.
Platycleis
Massa, Fontana, Buzzetti, Kleukers & Odé. 2012
.
Fauna d’Italia. Orthoptera
48:214.
Diagnosis:
Body slender, medium sized; head large; fastigium of vertex distinct usually considerably wider than scape of antenna; pronotum depressed with median keel distinct at metazona; lateral lobes of pronotum with distinct or indistinct white stripe; hind tibia ventrally with four apical spurs, inner two being shorter, dorsally withy three spines; tegmina fully developed with broad apex, with dark spots, transverse veins light coloured; female subgenital plate bilobate, separated by shallow to deep furrow; ovipositor long, bright brown, compressed laterally and regularly curved and usually longer than pronotum; Sixth and seventh female sternites modified or unmodified; male last tergite with two processes; the apex of male cercus blunt, with single inner tooth.