Plangia graminea Serville, 1839

Hemp, Claudia, 2013, Annotated list of Ensifera (Orthoptera) and further records on Caelifera (Orthoptera) of Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Zootaxa 3613 (4), pp. 301-342 : 330

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.4.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F9ABE9FA-824A-40AA-B2F8-7F9C7682B0AD

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6162933

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E40DC426-3839-FF84-FF24-FB1F9DE0F889

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Plangia graminea Serville, 1839
status

 

Plangia graminea Serville, 1839

( Fig. 13 View FIGURE 13 C)

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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Orthoptera

Family

Phaneropteridae

Genus

Plangia

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF