Raggeana Pener, Broza et Ayal, 1971

Massa, Bruno & Fontana, Paolo, 2011, Supraspecific taxonomy of Palaearctic Platycleidini with unarmed prosternum: a morphological approach (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniinae), Zootaxa 2837, pp. 1-47 : 20-21

29) Raggeana Pener, Broza et Ayal, 1971

Characters. Macropterous, pronotum rounded, keeled on metazona, humeral excision slight; median keel distinct in metazona; hind legs very long; Ƥ VI–VII th sternites markedly sculptured; Ƥ subgenital plate large, with large lateral lobes, median keel at each side, two small protuberances at the hind part of the median area with a short furrow between them; ovipositor extremely long (ca. four times longer than pronotum), thin and flat, curved at base and almost straight apically; hind femora/pronotum length 3: 3.9–4.0, Ƥ: 4.2–4.3; 3 X th tergite with two elongated, incurved, triangular and sharply pointed processes, cerci extremely long, round and apically incurved and upcurved, reaching beyond subgenital plate, the distal part of cercus is flat and toothed. Titillators are very long and thin. Colour of lateral lobes of the pronotum is greyish with a light stripe.

Distribution. Palestine.

Note. This genus was named after the English orthopterist David R. Ragge.

Remarks. The sole species known of this genus, the Palestinian R. bodenheimeri ( Uvarov, 1927) , was transferred first by Zeuner (1941) from Metrioptera to Sepiana , after to Platycleis by Ramme (1951) and finally to Raggeana by Pener et al. (1971); it has a Sepiana -like pronotum, but male processes and cerci, and female subgenital plate and ovipositor are very unique. According to Pener et al. (1971), characteristics of this taxon consent to differentiate it from any other within the tribe Platycleidini .

Number of species known (after Eades et al. 2010): 1) bodenheimeri ( Uvarov, 1927) .