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Krompokkels
Plangia
Plangia is a genus of insect in family Tettigoniidae, commonly known as Bush crickets or Katydids. In Afrikaans they are generally known as krompokkels, roughly meaning "little fat hunchbacks"; this name refers to their arched dorsal profile. The genus is indigenous to Sub-Saharan Africa. It includes the following species:
16 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Grass Krompokkel
speciesPlangia graminea
Plangia unimaculata
speciesPlangia unimaculata
Plangia villiersi
speciesPlangia villiersi
Plangia satiscaerulea
speciesPlangia satiscaerulea
Plangia deminuta
speciesPlangia deminuta
Plangia guttatipennis
speciesPlangia guttatipennis
Plangia karschi
speciesPlangia karschi
Plangia multimaculata
speciesPlangia multimaculata
Plangia nebulosa
speciesPlangia nebulosa
Plangia ovalifolia
speciesPlangia ovalifolia
Plangia segonoides
speciesPlangia segonoides
Plangia variacantans
speciesPlangia variacantans
Plangia astylata
speciesPlangia astylata
Plangia chopardi
speciesPlangia chopardi
Plangia geroi
speciesPlangia geroi
Plangia amaniensis
speciesPlangia amaniensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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Every page naming Plangia in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 434256.