Plangiopsis adeps Karsch, 1896

Massa, Bruno, 2015, New genera, species and records of Phaneropterinae (Orthoptera, Phaneropteridae) from sub-Saharan Africa, ZooKeys 472, pp. 77-102 : 81

Taxon classification Animalia Orthoptera Phaneropteridae

Plangiopsis adeps Karsch, 1896

Material examined.

Cameroon, Lolodorf, L.Conradt (2♀ syntypes) (MfN); Central African Republic, Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, Ndoki, Lake 1 10-11.II.2012 (UV trap), P.Moretto (1♀); same data 28-29.II.2012 (1♂); same data 29. II– 1.III.2012 (1♀); Ivory Coast, Bondoukou Zamou VII.2004, P.Moretto (2♂, 4♀); Ivory Coast, Sassandra I.1998, P.Moretto (1♂); Togo, Fazao hotel 3-4.VIII.2013 (UV trap), P.Moretto (2♀); Togo, Kpalimé, Ft of Missahöhe 29-30.VII.2013, P.Moretto (1♂) (BMCP).

Remarks.

Plangiopsis adeps is the largest species of the genus; only females from Cameroon (Lolodorf) were described by Karsch (1896). New distribution data now suggest that this species is widespread throughout Cameroon and Central African Republic to the Ivory Coast and Togo. Sexual characters of the male, previously undescribed, are the following: cerci slender and long, in-curved and a little up-curved, sub-genital plate narrow and long, ending with a v-shaped concavity, styli long. The stridulatory file is comparatively long.