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Subspecies

Platycleis albopunctata turanica Zeuner, 1930

CollectionObject 1500529; 031c86f0-42a6-4383-bff3-23006629d717: female, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500529; 031c86f0-42a6-4383-bff3-23006629d717: female, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500529; 031c86f0-42a6-4383-bff3-23006629d717: female, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500529; 031c86f0-42a6-4383-bff3-23006629d717: female, ventral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500529; 031c86f0-42a6-4383-bff3-23006629d717: female, frontal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1500529; 031c86f0-42a6-4383-bff3-23006629d717: labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502674; a77dd5c6-7fdc-4771-a2c7-db76ba49849b: female, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502674; a77dd5c6-7fdc-4771-a2c7-db76ba49849b: female, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502674; a77dd5c6-7fdc-4771-a2c7-db76ba49849b: ovipositor (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502674; a77dd5c6-7fdc-4771-a2c7-db76ba49849b: labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502675; fde74d76-bce7-4a81-b2fe-bc278fd1ce27: male, dorsal view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502675; fde74d76-bce7-4a81-b2fe-bc278fd1ce27: male, lateral view (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502675; fde74d76-bce7-4a81-b2fe-bc278fd1ce27: male, stridulatory area (syntype). (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1502675; fde74d76-bce7-4a81-b2fe-bc278fd1ce27: labels (syntype). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (7)

  • Platycleis intermedia turanica Zeuner, 1930: 209.

    Syntype; female; 031c86f0-42a6-4383-bff3-23006629d717; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN); Uzbekistan: Bukhoro: Buchara. Syntype; female; a77dd5c6-7fdc-4771-a2c7-db76ba49849b; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN); Uzbekistan: Bukhoro: Buchara. Syntype; male; fde74d76-bce7-4a81-b2fe-bc278fd1ce27; deposited at: Museum für Naturkunde (MfN); Kyrgyzstan: Osh: Turkestan, Alay Mountains, Karamuk

  • Platycleis intermedia turanica Zeuner, 1930 in Zeuner, 1941: 28.
  • Platycleis grisea transiens Zeuner, 1941 (subjective synonym of Platycleis intermedia turanica Zeuner, 1930) in Ozerski, 2026: 304.
  • Platycleis albopunctata turanica Zeuner, 1930 in Ozerski, 2026: 304.

References (5)

  • Zeuner, F.E. (1930) Beiträge zur Systematik und Phylogenie der Gattung Platycleis Fieb. und verwandter Decticinen (Orth. Tettig.). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 15(1), 199–235.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Korsunovskaya, O. (2016) On the distribution of the bush cricket Platycleis albopunctata transiens Zeuner, 1941 (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae) in the south of European Russia and in Uzbekistan. Entomological Review, Washington, 96(3), 288–293.
  • Ozerski, P.V. (2026) Taxonomic status of the taxon turanica Zeuner, 1930 within the genus Platycleis Fieber, 1853 (Orthoptera, Tettigoniidae): evidence from morphometry and bioacoustics. Ecologica Montenegrina, 98, 294–327. https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2026.98.19

Descendants and synonyms

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Etymology:

Reference to distribution, the Turan Depression is a low-lying desert basin in the region of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Subspecies1045