Phaneroptera sparsa Stål, 1857
(Fig. 8)
MADAGASCAR: Ranomafana, rain forest, Soarana trail, 920 m a. s. l., - 21.256813° S, 47.422720° E; 25 iii 2015, leg. Anton Krištín , CH 8598, female; MADAGASCAR: Ampanihy, spiny dry bush, 250 m a. s. l., - 24.661890° S, 44.710957° E; 16 iii 2015, leg. Anton Krištín , CH 8599, female; MADAGASCAR: Ibity, montane bush and grassland, 1700 m a. s. l., - 20.254053°S, 47.071768° E, 29 iii 2015 leg. Anton Krištín , CH 8600, female.
Additional record: MADAGASCAR: Perinet / Andasibe, 90 km east of Antananarivo (18°58'S, 48°24'E), 20 iii 1991, leg. A. Meschede , CH 4957, male.
The species is well-known from Madagascar (Ragge 1956; as P. nana sparsa) and confirmed with four localities (specimen from Ranomafana shown in Fig. 8).