Sporadiana 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 : 17-18

22) Sporadiana Zeuner, 1941 ( Figs. 22 , 75)

Characters. Micropterous, pronotum rounded, median keel not evident; ovipositor curved at the base, thence straight, long and slender; large and gibbous Ƥ VI sternite; hind femora very short, hind femora/pronotum length 3Ƥ: 2.2–2.5; 3 X th tergite with two wide processes. Basal arms of titillators with spines. Colour of lateral lobes of the pronotum is blackish bordered with a whitish stripe.

Remarks. As Parnassiana , it is well characterized by short hind femora; additionally, the male X th tergite shows two wide processes. The sole species known has been listed within Tessellana by Ragge (1990) and Ingrisch & Paviċeviċ (1985), but Çiplak et al. (2002) have shown that characters of Sporadiana justify the treatement as a separate taxon; according to Ünal (2006) it is related to Rammeola .

Distribution. From Balkan peninsula to Turkey.

Number of species known (after Eades et al. 2010): 1) sporadarum (Werner, 1933) (type species).

Figures

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