Plangia Stal 1873
Authors/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
Genus Plangia Stål, 1873
The genus Plangia is richer in species than it is generally believed. Recently Hemp et al. (2015) and Hemp (2017) have revised the Plangia graminea complex in East Africa, finding that P. graminea (Serville, 1838) is very probably only distributed in southern Africa, while four previously unknown species, P. satiscaerulea Hemp, 2015 (Mt. Kilimanjaro), P. multimaculata Hemp, 2015 (Mt. Kilimanjaro), P. amaniensis Hemp, 2017 (Usambara Mts.) and P. variacantans Hemp, 2017 (Uluguru Mts.) are present in Tanzania. Previous authors highlighted that very probably in West Africa other species are the representatives of the P. graminea complex. Material collected in central and west tropical Africa allowed to highlight the high species diversity in the genus Plangia also in those forests.
Massa (2021a) reported two unidentified species of Plangia from Zambia and Gabon; they will be discussed in another paper.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Stal
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Orthoptera
- Family
- Phaneropteridae
- Genus
- Plangia
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Plangia Stal, 1873 sec. Massa, 2021
References
- Hemp, C., Heller, K. - G., Warchalowska-Sliwa, E., Grzywacz, B. & Hemp, A. (2015) Review of the Plangia graminea (Serville) complex and the description of new Plangia species from East Africa (Orthoptera: Phaneropteridae, Phaneropterinae) with data on habitat, bioacoustics, and chromosomes. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution, 15 (3), 471 - 488. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 13127 - 015 - 0216 - 8
- Massa, B. (2021 a) Tettigoniidae (Insecta) collected in tropical forests of Zambia, Cameroon, Gabon and Sao Tome during the entomological expeditions of African Natural History Research Trust. Annales de la Societe entomologique de France, 57 (1), 29 - 76. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00379271.2020.1867004