Platycleis Fieber. 1853

Genus Platycleis Fieber. 1853 Platycleis Fieber. 1853. Lotos 3:149. Type species: Locusta grisea Fabricius. 1781. Species Insectorum 1:359. Platycleis Herman, O. 1874. Verh. der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellsch. Wien 24:199, 207. Platycleis Finot. 1883. Les Orthoptères de la France 92, 114. Platycleis Ragge. 1990. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Ent. 59(1):9, 13. Platycleis Massa, Fontana, Buzzetti, Kleukers & Odé. 2012. Fauna d’Italia. Orthoptera 48:214. Diagnosis: Body slender, medium sized; head large; fastigium of vertex distinct usually considerably wider than scape of antenna; pronotum depressed with median keel distinct at metazona; lateral lobes of pronotum with distinct or indistinct white stripe; hind tibia ventrally with four apical spurs, inner two being shorter, dorsally withy three spines; tegmina fully developed with broad apex, with dark spots, transverse veins light coloured; female subgenital plate bilobate, separated by shallow to deep furrow; ovipositor long, bright brown, compressed laterally and regularly curved and usually longer than pronotum; Sixth and seventh female sternites modified or unmodified; male last tergite with two processes; the apex of male cercus blunt, with single inner tooth.
Published as part of Farooqi, Mohd Kaleemullah, Ali, Mohd, Amir, Mohammad & Usmani, Mohd Kamil, 2022, First record of grey bush-cricket Platycleis albopunctata (Goeze, 1778) (Tettigoniidae: Tettigoniini) on the agricultural crops from Trans Himalaya India, pp. 435-442 in Zootaxa 5120 (3) on page 436, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5120.3.9, http://zenodo.org/record/6389592