Phaneroptera sparsa Stål, 1857

Heller, Klaus-Gerhard, Hemp, Claudia, Massa, Bruno, Rakotondranary, Jacques & Krištín, Anton, 2019, Notes on a small collection of phaneropterine bush-crickets (Insecta: Orthoptera: Tettigonioidea) from Central and Southern Madagascar with the description of two new species, Zootaxa 4563 (2), pp. 297-310 : 302-305

Phaneroptera sparsa Stål, 1857

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MADAGASCAR: Ranomafana , rain forest, Soarana trail, 920 m a. s. l., - 21.256813° S, 47.422720° E; 25 iii 2015, leg. Anton Krištín , CH 8598, female; MADAGASCAR: Ampanihy , spiny dry bush, 250 m a. s. l., - 24.661890° S, 44.710957° E; 16 iii 2015, leg. Anton Krištín , CH 8599, female; MADAGASCAR: Ibity , montane bush and grassland, 1700 m a. s. l., - 20.254053°S, 47.071768° E, 29 iii 2015 leg. Anton Krištín , CH 8600, female.

Additional record: MADAGASCAR: Perinet / Andasibe , 90 km east of Antananarivo (18°58'S, 48°24'E), 20 iii 1991, leg. A. Meschede , CH 4957, male.

The species is well-known from Madagascar ( Ragge 1956; as P. nana sparsa ) and confirmed with four localities (specimen from Ranomafana shown in Fig. 8 ).

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FIGURE 8. Phaneroptera sparsa, female, habitus; Ranomafana 25 March 2015.