Bicolorana 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 : 15-16

16) Bicolorana Zeuner, 1941 ( Figs. 29 , 53 , 93 , 114)

Characters. Head just larger than long, ratio maximum width/length of head (from vertex to clipeus): 1.1-1.2. Tegmina are generally abbreviated, but sometimes macropterous individuals of some species are found. Pronotum flat, just depressed, borders rounded, humeral excision just evident, keel present in the metazona; Ƥ subgenital plate longer than wide, attenuated to the apex and incised, at the sides not touching the ovipositor; ovipositor comparatively short and thick, bent upwards beyond the apex of the subgenital plate; Ƥ VI-VII th sternites modified or not; hind femora long and slender, hind femora/pronotum length 3Ƥ: 3.7-3.8; 3 X th tergite with two apical pointed processes, cerci long and apically flattened. Colour of lateral lobes of the pronotum is greenish; the whitish stripe is indistinct.

Distribution. Central and E to NE Europe.

Number of species known (after Eades et al. 2010): 3: 1) bicolor (Philippi, 1830) (type species); 2) burri (Uvarov, 1921) ; 3) kuntzeni (Ramme, 1931) .

Figures

FIGURES 25 – 32. Lateral view of the pronotum of other 8 species of Platycleidini (Sphagniana, Eobiana, Vichetia, Metrioptera, Bicolorana, Roeseliana, Zeuneriana, Broughtonia).

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 86 – 93. Subgenital plate of the female of other 8 species of Platycleidini (Roeseliana, Metrioptera, Broughtonia, Zeuneriana, Eobiana, Vichetia, Bicolorana).