Plangia Stål, 1873

Massa, Bruno, 2021, Orthoptera Tettigoniidae as indicators of biodiversity hotspots in the Guinean Forests of Central and West Tropical Africa, Zootaxa 4974 (3), pp. 401-458 : 424

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.