Chizuella Furukawa, 1950

Massa, Bruno & Fontana, Paolo, 2011, Supraspecific taxonomy of Palaearctic Platycleidini with unarmed prosternum: a morphological approach (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniinae), Zootaxa 2837, pp. 1-47 : 19

25) Chizuella Furukawa, 1950 ( Figs. 23 , 104 , 126)

Characters. Micropterous, pronotum not evidently excised, flat, median keel present; Ƥ subgenital plate evidently excised, with two pointed lobes and a central deep furrow; ovipositor black, stout, short and regularly curved upwards; 3 X th tergite with two short and very close processes. Colour of lateral lobes of the pronotum is greyishblack bordered with a white stripe.

Remarks. The only species included in this taxon ( C. bonneti ) was listed by Zeuner (1941) within Metrioptera .

Distribution. Japan.

Number of species known (after Eades et al. 2010): 1) bonneti (Bolivar, 1890) (type species).

Figures

FIGURES 17 – 24. Lateral view of the pronotum of 8 species of Platycleidini (Uludaghia, Squamiana, Pravdiniana, Sepiana, Sporadiana, Chizuella, Eumetrioptera).

FIGURES 102 – 105. Subgenital plate of the female of other 4 species of Platycleidini (Decorana, Chizuella).