Afghanoptera Ramme, 1952

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

31) Afghanoptera Ramme, 1952

Characters. Micropterous, medium sized, fastigium wider than eye width. Pronotum rounded, keel just evident in the metazona, hind margin wide and convex. Tegmina longer than half pronotum, reaching the 2nd tergite; hind femora/pronotum length 3Ƥ: 2.5; 3 X th tergite broken in the middle by a deep rectangular incision, cerci brodkin-shaped, just incurved, with a small inner teeth in the last fourth. The subgenital plate of the male is narrow and nearly reaches cerci apex. The basal and apical arms of titillators are at right angle. The female is unknown.

Distribution. Afghanistan.

Number of species known (after Eades et al. 2010): 1) adusta Ramme, 1952 (type species).