Platycleidini, Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

Ünal, Mustafa, 2018, Tettigoniinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from Turkey with key to genera and descriptions of six new species, Zootaxa 4432 (1), pp. 1-66 : 17

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4432.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D44C8383-4070-44B6-91CE-4A0940A0F094

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5989323

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8B5C87A2-FFB0-FFF3-FF6C-FC9309CDFB63

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scientific name

Platycleidini
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Platycleidini View in CoL Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 syn. confirmed

Remarks. Storozhenko et al. (2015: 77) synonymized the tribe Platycleidini Brunner with Decticini Herman because of the absence of significant characters. So indeed, the only important difference of the type genus of Decticini , Decticus Serville , from the type genus of the tribe Platycleidini , Platycleis Fieber , is the fore tibia with 4 dorsal spines on the outside (in Platycleis , fore tibia with 3 dorsal spines on the outside as a usual character in many other genera also belong to the other tribes). But Decticus shares this character with some genera which are not close relatives such as Psorodonotus Brunner , Bucephaloptera Ebner , Festella Giglio-Tos (see the key to genera above). The only close relative of Decticus is the genus Medecticus Uvarov. Therefore I agree that Platycleidini is a synonym of Decticini .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Tettigoniidae

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