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Lanista africana

Creators

  • 1. Department of Agriculture, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Viale Scienze 13, 90128 Palermo, Italy (retired). bruno. massa @ unipa. it; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2127 - 0715

Description

Lanista africana (Walker, 1871)

Material examined. Sierra Leone, Loma Mts., Closed-canopy for. (1050m) (light trap) 7-10.VI.2016, H. Takano, W. Miles, R. Goff (1♀); Côte d’Ivoire, Mt. Tonkoui Peak (1171m) 9-16.IV.2016 (light Trap), M. Aristophanous, P. Moretto (1♀); Côte d’Ivoire, Mt. Tonkoui Peak (1171m) 20-27.V.2018 (MV Light Trap), M. Aristophanous, W. Miles, P. Moretto, Y. Outtara (1♂) (ANHRT); Côte d’Ivoire, Lamto Res. Station, Bandama river 3.VII.1962 (light) (1♀); same locality 24.VII.1962 (light) (1♀); Côte d’Ivoire, Man, Mt. Tonkoui (1171m) 19.II.2017 (light) (1♀), 1.IV.2017 (light) (1♂, 1♀), 22.IV.2018 (light) (1♂); Ghana, Kalande IX.1982, P. Butti (1♀) (BMPC).

Distribution. Naskrecki & Guta (2019) have reinstated this taxon, which results to be present only in West Africa (Guinea and Ghana); here it is recorded also from Sierra Leone and Côte d’Ivoire.

Notes

Published as part of Massa, Bruno, 2021, Orthoptera Tettigoniidae as indicators of biodiversity hotspots in the Guinean Forests of Central and West Tropical Africa, pp. 401-458 in Zootaxa 4974 (3) on page 423, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4974.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4778159

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D6753F146FFFEDE89EFDBFFBBAB885

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4974.3.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4778159 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFEF0D471479FFFBE809FFF8FFC7BB20 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/D830FF11-A538-4FDB-80C0-E32DE3D10D43 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03D6753F146FFFEDE89EFDBFFBBAB885 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/182642360 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/6215/taxon/03D6753F146FFFEDE89EFDBFFBBAB885.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
MV, ANHRT
Event date
1962-07-03 , 1962-07-24 , 2016-04-09 , 2016-06-07 , 2017-02-19 , 2017-04-01 , 2018-05-20
Family
Tettigoniidae
Genus
Lanista
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Orthoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Walker
Species
africana
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1962-07-03 , 1962-07-24 , 2016-04-09/16 , 2016-06-07/10 , 2017-02-19 , 2017-04-01 , 2018-05-20/27
Taxonomic concept label
Lanista africana (Walker, 1871) sec. Massa, 2021

References

  • Naskrecki, P. & Guta, R. (2019) Katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) of Gorongosa National Park and Central Mozambique. Zootaxa, 4682 (1), 1 - 119. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4682.1.1