Arantia fasciata Walker 1869
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Description
Arantia fasciata (Walker, 1869)
http://lsid.speciesfile.org/urn:lsid: Orthoptera.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:12755
Distribution: Africa south of the Sahara.
Ecology & Biology: Arantia fasciata is often collected at light by night. In savanna habitats on Combretum zehyeri.
Habitat: Hemp (2005); Hemp (2013a). Canopy dweller.
Song: Arantia fasciata sings in the evening hours shortly after sunset. Its song of a few loud syllables is easily recognized produced from high trees (Hemp 2013a).
Remarks: In the zoological museum of Copenhagen a specimen of A. fasciata was studied differing in the spination of the hind legs. The genus Arantia is characterized by having outer spines on the hind femora while this specimen from Amani also had large spines of the inner side of the hind femora.
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.3737.4.1 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/248321 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF9AF0649022F41CFFBFAF20FF95FFCD (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/16B3744F-D3A5-45DB-85A4-A9201EDB5A2A (URL)
- Is source of
- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03A3881C9003F43FFF28A9D9FB8EFE8F (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Phaneropteridae
- Genus
- Arantia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Walker
- Species
- fasciata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Arantia fasciata Walker, 1869 sec. Hemp, 2013