Plangia graminea Serville, 1839
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.4.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6162933 |
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Plangia graminea Serville, 1839 |
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Plangia graminea Serville, 1839
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Distribution. Cameroon, Gabon, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Ghana, Congo, Uganda, Tanzania. Botswana, SW Africa, Natal, South Africa (collection NHML), DRC, Urundi, Mozambique, Central African Republic, Angola, Niger (collection Tervuren); Sierra Leone (collection Stockholm).
Habitat. Hemp C. 2005. In the tree layer in the plantation belt on the southern slopes of Mt Kilimanjaro.
Song. A single loud chirp heard in the evening hours from large trees in the plantation belt.
Altitudinal range at Mt Kilimanjaro: 1400–1500 m.
Records: 3
Remarks. The type of P. graminea seems to be lost (Eades et al. 2012). This species was originally described from South Africa, Cape region. Plenty of specimens are hold in various collections showing a certain variability of this species in terms of wing length, color pattern and variations in length and stoutness of the male cerci and shape of the subgenital plate. This suggests that more than one species may be hidden in this complex. Plangia graminea is in need of revision to decide whether a sole species is distributed over such a large area of Africa being collected from various habitats.
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