Broughtonia Harz, 1969

Massa, Bruno & Fontana, Paolo, 2011, Supraspecific taxonomy of Palaearctic Platycleidini with unarmed prosternum: a morphological approach (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniinae), Zootaxa 2837, pp. 1-47 : 16

18) Broughtonia Harz, 1969 ( Figs. 32 , 89 , 116)

Characters. Micropterous, pronotum flat, just depressed, humeral excision just evident, keel present in metazona; Ƥ subgenital plate with a deep triangular incision of the apex; ovipositor rather curved upwards; hind femora/pronotum length 3: 3.3-3.8, Ƥ: 3.4-3.6; 3 X th tergite semicircularly emarginate, spine-shaped, cerci long and flattened in the apical third. Colour of lateral lobes of the pronotum is greyish; the whitish stripe is indistinct.

Distribution. E Europe.

Number of species known (after Eades et al. 2010): 2: 1) arnoldi (Ramme, 1933) ; 2) domogledi (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882) (type species).

Figures

FIGURES 25 – 32. Lateral view of the pronotum of other 8 species of Platycleidini (Sphagniana, Eobiana, Vichetia, Metrioptera, Bicolorana, Roeseliana, Zeuneriana, Broughtonia).

FIGURES 86 – 93. Subgenital plate of the female of other 8 species of Platycleidini (Roeseliana, Metrioptera, Broughtonia, Zeuneriana, Eobiana, Vichetia, Bicolorana).