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 .