Hermoniana Broza, Ayal et Pener, 2004

Massa, Bruno & Fontana, Paolo, 2011, Supraspecific taxonomy of Palaearctic Platycleidini with unarmed prosternum: a morphological approach (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniinae), Zootaxa 2837, pp. 1-47 : 20

28) Hermoniana Broza, Ayal et Pener, 2004

Characters. Pronotum rounded, just excised, no longitudinal keels and no anterior sulcus; short hind leg and inflated (broad) femur; Ƥ subgenital plate concave, bordered laterally and apically by wide lyre-shaped ridge; ovipositor gently upcurved, its tip with three unequal rows of very delicate denticles; 3 X th tergite; median projection of titillators covered by denticles on outer and upper side; basal and apical arms at right angle to median projection; apical arm beak-like, long and fully sclerotized. Colour of lateral lobes of the pronotum is greyish bordered with a white stripe.

Distribution. Middle East.

Remarks. According to Broza et al. (2004) it is related to Eumetrioptera , mainly in the shape of pronotum, in the shortness of hind femora and in the 3 cerci. Differences are more distinct in the titillators and in female tegmina.

Number of species known (after Eades et al. 2010): 2: 1) blondheimae Broza, Ayal et Pener, 2004 ; 2) brozai Ünal, 2006 .