Platycleis Fieber, 1852

Çiplak, Battal, Heller, Klaus-Gerhard & Demirsoy, Ali, 2002, Review and key to species of Platycleis from Turkey (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) with descriptions of Yalvaciana subgen. n. and two new species, Journal of Natural History 36 (2), pp. 197-236 : 203-204

Subgenus Platycleis Fieber, 1852

Platycleis Fieber, 1852 (see Ragge, 1990).

Key to species (male) 1 Titillators with weak apical arms and with weak teeth on them (®gures 1, 2, 4, 5). 2

± Titillators with strong apical arms and with strong teeth on them (®gure 3). escalerai

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at of by 2 Cu not outstandingly pale at the base; titillators as in ®gures 1, 4...... 3

± Cu outstandingly pale at the base; titillators as in ®gure 2....... a nis

3 Titillators slender (®gure 4).............. intermedia ± Titillators strong (®gure 1)............. albopunctata

Key to species (female) 1 VII sternite with one or two tubercules............. 2

± VII sternite not modi®ed (®gure 6)........... albopunctata

2 VII sternite with one tubercule developed in whole surface (®gures 7, 8).... 3

± VII sternite with two transversal tubercules (®gure 9)....... intermedia

3 Tubercle of VII sternite curved backwards, subgenital plate narrowly and shallowly incised (®gure 7); ovipositor slightly upcurved (®gure 10)....... a nis

± Tubercle of VII sternite large, not curved backwards, subgenital plate widely and deeply incised (®gure 8); ovipositor strongly upcurved (®gure 11).... escalerai