Plangia segonoides ( Butler, 1878 )

Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Hemp, Claudia, Massa, Bruno, Rakotondranary, Jacques & Krištín, Anton, 2019, Notes on a small collection of phaneropterine bush-crickets (Insecta: Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea) from Central and Southern Madagascar with the description of two new species, Zootaxa 4563 (2), pp. 297-310 : 299

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4563.2.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1B771ABE-D550-4F28-92AE-F53AE3421586

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5923320

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9F26C00B-4848-FFF6-D9B8-4CE41F5EFD86

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Plazi

scientific name

Plangia segonoides ( Butler, 1878 )
status

 

Plangia segonoides ( Butler, 1878)

( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 )

MADAGASCAR: Ranomafana , rain forest, Soarana trail, 920 m a. s. l., - 21.256813° S, 47.422720° E GoogleMaps ; 25 iii 2015, leg. Anton Krištín, CH 8594, female.

The female specimen belongs clearly to the genus Plangia of which three species are known from Madagascar ( guttatipennis and segonoides ) and the West Indian Islands ( ovalifolia ; Table 1). In width of the tegmina the collected specimen is very similar to P. segonoides , known only from the male type specimen. Also the other measurements are relatively close to this species. Therefore we assume that the specimen may belong to P. segonoides . Since the female was unknown, we give figures of its head and ovipositor ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 ). However, it may be difficult to separate a single female morphologically from other African Plangia species.

Habitat. The specimen was found dead in a spider web in a semiopen site within tall tropical rainforest with many palm species and several orchid and fern species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Phaneropteridae

Genus

Plangia

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