Rammeola Uvarov, 1934

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27) Rammeola Uvarov, 1934

Characters. Micropterous, face broad, vertex broad, pronotum rounded, short, not excised, median keel weakly developed in metazona or absent. Ƥ subgenital plate with a wide-deep emargination and lateral keels; ovipositor ensiform, bent under an obtuse angle near the base, then feebly upcurved, bearing small tubercles on ventral margin near the apex; hind femora/pronotum length 3: 2.5–2.9, Ƥ: 2.6–2.7; 3 X th tergite emarginate with long and downcurved processes, cerci spinous, with a thick and curved tooth in the middle of apical half, base of tooth markedly widened. Titillators very small with circle-shaped basal arms. Colour of lateral lobes of the pronotum is black bordered with a wide white stripe.

Distribution. Turkey.

Note. This genus was named after the German orthopterist Willy Ramme.

Remarks. According to Çiplak (1999) it is closely related to Zeuneriana and Afghanoptera , but has a rather cylindrical pronotum, hind plantulae longer than half metatarsi, a wide-deep emargination and lateral keels on the Ƥ subgenital plate, circle-shaped basal arms of titillators and emarginate Xth tergite. Conversely, Ünal (2006) considers it related to Sporadiana , for the structure of tegmina, the shape of ovipositor, male X th tergite and cerci, female VII th sternite and subgenital plate.

Number of species known (after Eades et al. 2010): 1) anatolica Uvarov, 1934 .