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Platycleis ragusai Ramme, 1927

Messina Bush-cricket; Messina Grey Bush-cricket
CollectionObject 1500523; 0e05356a-cb78-4260-b6ec-7032350f3546, DORSA BTplaragHTF: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500523; 0e05356a-cb78-4260-b6ec-7032350f3546, DORSA BTplaragHTF: female, dorsal view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500523; 0e05356a-cb78-4260-b6ec-7032350f3546, DORSA BTplaragHTF: female, lateral view (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500523; 0e05356a-cb78-4260-b6ec-7032350f3546, DORSA BTplaragHTF: ovipositor (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500523; 0e05356a-cb78-4260-b6ec-7032350f3546, DORSA BTplaragHTF: labels (holotype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502670; a7adf959-8b03-45bb-9e76-9c648fdcc93c: male, dorsal view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502670; a7adf959-8b03-45bb-9e76-9c648fdcc93c: male, lateral view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502670; a7adf959-8b03-45bb-9e76-9c648fdcc93c: male pronotum, dorsal view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502670; a7adf959-8b03-45bb-9e76-9c648fdcc93c: male cerci (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502670; a7adf959-8b03-45bb-9e76-9c648fdcc93c: labels (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502671; 160a6c83-749d-4c46-8e58-de307987d3b1: female, dorsal view (paratype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502671; 160a6c83-749d-4c46-8e58-de307987d3b1: labels (paratype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (8)

  • Platycleis ragusai Ramme, 1927: 140.

    Holotype; female; DORSA BTplaragHTF; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN); Messina, Colle S. Rizzo

  • Platycleis ragusai Ramme, 1927 in Zeuner, 1941: 29.
  • Platycleis ragusai Ramme, 1927 in Massa, Fontana, Buzzetti, Kleukers & Odé, 2012: 221.
  • Platycleis ragusai Ramme, 1927 in Iorio, Scherini, Fontana, Buzzetti, Kleukers, Odé & Massa, 2019: 75.

References (8)

  • Ramme, W. (1927) Die Dermapteren und Orthopteren Siziliens und Kretas, mit kritischen Beiträgen und Revision aus den Gattungen Hololampra Sauss., Acrometopa Fieb., Pholidoptera Br., Platycleis Fieb., u.a. Eos, Revista española de Entomología, 3, 111–200. Available at http://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/138731
  • Zeuner, F.E. (1941) The classification of the Decticinae hitherto included in Platycleis Fieb. or Metrioptera Wesm. (Orthoptera, Saltatoria). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 91, 1–50, figs. 1–45.
  • Ramme, W. (1951) Zur Systematik, Faunistik und Biologie der Orthopteren von Südost-Europa und Vorderasien. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 27, 1–431.
  • Harz, K. (1969) Die Orthopteren Europas I. Series Entomologica, 5, 1–749.
  • Ragge, D.R. (1990) The songs of the western European bush-crickets of the genus Platycleis in relation to their taxonomy (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, 59(1), 1–35. Available at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41055755#page/3/mode/1up
  • Massa, B. & Fontana, P. (2011) Supraspecific taxonomy of Palaearctic Platycleidini with unarmed prosternum: a morphological approach (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae, Tettigoniinae). Zootaxa, 2837, 1–47. Available at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt02837p047.pdf
  • Massa, B., Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M., Kleukers, R.M.J.C. & Odé, B. (2012) Fauna d'Italia. Orthoptera. Calderini, Bologna, Vol. 48, 563 pp.
  • Iorio, C., Scherini, R., Fontana, P., Buzzetti, F.M., Kleukers, R.M.J.C., Odé, B. & Massa, B. (2019) Grasshoppers and Crickets of Italy: A photographic field guide to all the species. World Biodiversity Association, 577 pp. Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=iiXGDwAAQBAJ

Descendants and synonyms

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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