Zeuneriana Ramme, 1951

Massa, Bruno & Fontana, Paolo, 2011, Supraspecific taxonomy of Palaearctic Platycleidini with unarmed prosternum: a morphological approach (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniinae), Zootaxa 2837, pp. 1-47 : 17

20) Zeuneriana Ramme, 1951 ( Figs. 31 , 90 , 110)

Characters. Head just larger than long, ratio maximum width/length of head (from vertex to clipeus): 1.1-1.2. Micropterous, pronotum flat, borders rounded, humeral excision just evident, keel present in the metazona; Ƥ subgenital plate with hind margin broadly and deeply emarginate, terminal lobes long; ovipositor short, stout; hind femora/pronotum length 3: 2.7–3.1, Ƥ: 3.0–3.5; 3 X th tergite broad, incised in the middle, with two short triangular processes, cerci short, stout and toothed at the base or proximally. Colour of lateral lobes of the pronotum is blackish or greenish; the white stripe is absent.

Remarks. Ƥ subgenital plate and 3 X th tergite consent to separate it from related taxa (cf. also Kleukers et al. 1997).

Distribution. S Europe.

Note. This genus was named after the Anglo-German orthopterist F. E. Zeuner.

Number of species known (after Eades et al. 2010): 4: 1) abbreviata (Serville, 1838) ; 2) amplipennis (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882); 3) burriana (Uvarov, 1935) ; 4) marmorata (Fieber, 1853) (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).