Parnassiana Zeuner, 1941

Massa, Bruno & Fontana, Paolo, 2011, Supraspecific taxonomy of Palaearctic Platycleidini with unarmed prosternum: a morphological approach (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniinae), Zootaxa 2837, pp. 1-47 : 11-12

8) Parnassiana Zeuner, 1941 ( Figs. 8 , 60 , 95 , 119)

Characters. Micropterous, pronotum rounded, humeral excision absent, hind border of pronotum not exceeding the mesonotum, keel present; pronotum short (ratio length/height of pronotum 3Ƥ: 1.2–1.3). Ƥ subgenital plate with smooth rounded lobes; ovipositor whitish regularly curved, ca. 2.0–2.2 as long as pronotum, thick at the base, not laterally compressed; Ƥ VI–VII th sternites not modified; hind femora very short, hind femora/pronotum length 3: 2.2–2.5, Ƥ: 2.3–2.6; 3 X th tergite broadly depressed in middle and deeply incised, lobes large and long. Colour of lateral lobes of the pronotum is blackish-gray bordered with a white stripe.

Remarks. Well characterized by short hind femora, male X th tergite, and ovipositor not laterally compressed (see below).

Distribution. It covers Balkan peninsula; the species living in Mediterranean France, described as P. vicheti , belongs to another taxon and its affinity to Parnassiana seems only a phenomenon of convergence.

Number of species known (after Eades et al. 2010, modified): 13: 1) chelmos Zeuner, 1941 ; 2) coracis (Ramme, 1921) ; 3) dirphys (Willemse, 1980) ; 4) fusca (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1882); 5) gionica La Greca et Messina, 1976 ; 6) menalon (Willemse, 1975) ; 7) nigromarginata (Willemse et Willemse, 1987) ; 8) panaetolikon (Willemse, 1980) ; 9) parnassica (Ramme, 1926) (type species); 10) parnon (Willemse, 1980) ; 11) tenuis ( Heller, 1988) ; 12) tymphiensis (Willemse, 1973) ; 13) tymphrestos Zeuner, 1941 .

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 10. Lateral view of the pronotum of 10 species of Platycleidini (Platycleis, Tessellana, Montana, Sardoplatycleis, Modestana, Alticolana, Parnassiana, Ariagona, Amedegnatiana).

FIGURES 48 – 63. Lateral view of the ovipositor of 16 species of Platycleidini (Platycleis, Sardoplatycleis, Sepiana, Metrioptera, Roeseliana, Bicolorana, Chizuella, Eobiana, Modestana, Sphagniana, Amedegnatiana, Alticolana, Parnassiana, Squamiana, Eumetrioptera).

FIGURES 94 – 101. Subgenital plate of the female of other 8 species of Platycleidini (Sepiana, Parnassiana, Amedegnatiana, Modestana, Sphagniana, Squamiana, Uludaghia).