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
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5682424
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scientific name	Plangia graminea Serville, 1839
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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.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Orthoptera
Family	Phaneropteridae
Genus	Plangia

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