Plangia graminea Serville, 1839

Hemp, Claudia, 2013, Annotated list of Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera) from the East Usambara Mountains Tanzania and new Tettigoniidae species from East Africa, Zootaxa 3737 (4), pp. 301-350 : 340

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3737.4.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:16B3744F-D3A5-45DB-85A4-A9201EDB5A2A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5682424

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Plangia graminea Serville, 1839
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Plangia graminea Serville, 1839

http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid: Orthoptera .speciesfile.org:TaxonName:9852

Distribution: Wide-spread in tropical Africa (Hemp 2013a).

Habitat: Hemp (2005); Hemp (2013a). Canopy dweller.

Song: A single loud chirp heard in the evening hours from large trees.

Remarks: The entomological collection of the zoological museum Copenhagen holds a female of Plangia graminea caught in Amani at 1000 m resembling exactly the specimens found on Mt Kilimanjaro. Specimens from other areas of Africa show a great morphological variability.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Phaneropteridae

SubFamily

Phaneropterinae

Genus

Plangia

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

SubFamily

Phaneropterinae

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