Ariagona Krauss, 1892

Massa, Bruno & Fontana, Paolo, 2011, Supraspecific taxonomy of Palaearctic Platycleidini with unarmed prosternum: a morphological approach (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniinae), Zootaxa 2837, pp. 1-47 : 21

32) Ariagona Krauss, 1892 ( Figs. 9 , 76, 84, 117)

Characters. Head nearly as large as long, ratio maximum width/length of head (from vertex to clipeus): 1.0–1.1. Micropterous, pronotum rounded, not excised, depressed, ca. 1.6–1.7 longer than high, keel not evident; ovipositor regularly upcurved; Ƥ subgenital plate evidently excised, with two pointed lobes; ovipositor yellowish, regularly upcurved; hind femora/pronotum length 3Ƥ: 3.4–4.0; 3 X th tergite with two pointed and very close processes, cerci long, rounded, with an inner subapical tooth. Colour of lateral lobes of the pronotum is black bordered with a wide white stripe.

Remarks. Relationships with other genera of Platycleidini are not clear.

Distribution. Endemic to Canary Is.

Number of species known (after Eades et al. 2010): 1) margaritae Krauss, 1892 (type species).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 10. Lateral view of the pronotum of 10 species of Platycleidini (Platycleis, Tessellana, Montana, Sardoplatycleis, Modestana, Alticolana, Parnassiana, Ariagona, Amedegnatiana).