Vichetia 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

17) Vichetia Harz, 1969 ( Figs. 27 , 92 , 115)

Characters. Micropterous, pronotum flat, just depressed, humeral excision just evident, keel present in metazona; Ƥ subgenital plate as broad as long or broader than long, with a basal keel, side sclerites large, fused with the subgenital plate; Ƥ VI th sternite with a hook; ovipositor slender, curved upwards in the basal third; hind femora/pronotum length 3Ƥ: 3.1-3.6; 3 X th tergite with pointed processes, cerci rounded. Colour of lateral lobes of the pronotum is blackish bordered with a white stripe.

Distribution. E Europe to Turkey.

Note. This genus was named after the French orthopterist G. de Vichet.

Number of species known (after Eades et al. 2010): 3: 1) helleri (Schmidt, 1998) ; 2) knipperi ( Ramme, 1951) ; 3) oblongicollis (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).