Platycleidini, Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893

Ünal, Mustafa, 2018, Tettigoniinae (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) from Turkey with key to genera and descriptions of six new species, Zootaxa 4432 (1), pp. 1-66 : 17

Platycleidini Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1893 syn. confirmed

Remarks. Storozhenko et al. (2015: 77) synonymized the tribe Platycleidini Brunner with Decticini Herman because of the absence of significant characters. So indeed, the only important difference of the type genus of Decticini , Decticus Serville , from the type genus of the tribe Platycleidini , Platycleis Fieber , is the fore tibia with 4 dorsal spines on the outside (in Platycleis , fore tibia with 3 dorsal spines on the outside as a usual character in many other genera also belong to the other tribes). But Decticus shares this character with some genera which are not close relatives such as Psorodonotus Brunner , Bucephaloptera Ebner , Festella Giglio-Tos (see the key to genera above). The only close relative of Decticus is the genus Medecticus Uvarov. Therefore I agree that Platycleidini is a synonym of Decticini .