Morgenia plurimaculata Massa & Moulin 2018
Creators: name: Massa, Bruno
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Orthoptera
Tettigoniidae
Morgenia
Morgenia plurimaculata

description: Morgenia plurimaculata Massa & Moulin, 2018
Massa & Moulin in Massa et al. 2018, Dtsch. Entomol. Z. 65(2): 165;
type locality: Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, Central African Republic; depository: MCSN, Genoa (♁ holotypus).
Material examined. Republic of Congo, Sangha prov., N-N NP, Mombongo bai (marshland) 02°10’14.4”N, 16°08’27.9”E (311m) 28.VI.2022, Actinic Light Trap, V. Dérozier & P. Mekounou (1♁); Republic of Congo, Sangha prov., N-N NP, Bomassa camp (secondary forest) (353m), 02°12’36.9”N, 16°11’30.2”E, 18.VI–3.VII.2022, MV Light Trap, V. Dérozier (1♁); Republic of Congo, Sangha prov., N-N NP, Mombongo camp (Moist mixed forest 02°10’30.7”N, 16°08’37.7”E, 28.VI.2022, MV Light Trap, V. Dérozier (1♁); Republic of Congo, Sangha prov., N-N NP, Bomassa camp (secondary for.) 02°12’36.9”N, 16°11’30.2”E, 16–23.IX.2022, MV Light Trap, V. Dérozier, B. Fouka, A. Kirk-Spriggs, H. Takano (10♁); Republic of Congo, Sangha prov., N-N NP, Makao camp (secondary for.) 02°35’42.2”N, 17°10’08.3”E, 23–29.IX.2022, MV Light Trap, V. Dérozier, B. Fouka, A. Kirk-Spriggs, H. Takano (8♁); Republic of Congo, Sangha prov., N-N NP, Ndoki formation (secondary forest), 02°12’47.7”N, 16°23’45.8”E, 29.IX–1.X.2022, MV Light Trap, V. Dérozier, B. Fouka, A. Kirk-Spriggs, H. Takano (13♁); Republic of Congo, Sangha prov., N-N NP, Mbeli camp (secondary forest) (341m) 1–10.X.2022, MV light trap, V. Dérozier, B. Fouka, A. Kirk-Spriggs, H. Takano (1♁, 1♀ with Nematomorpha, Gordiacea); Republic of Congo, Sangha prov., N-N NP, Mbeli camp (Gilbertiodendron forest) (341m) 02°14’23.8”N, 16°23’52.1”E, 1– 10.X.2022, Lepiled light trap, V. Dérozier, B. Fouka, A. Kirk-Spriggs, H. Takano (1♁); Republic of Congo, Sangha prov., N-N NP, Bomassa camp (secondary for.) (341m) 02°12’36.9”N, 16°11’30.2”E, 10–16.X.2022, MV Light Trap, V. Dérozier, B. Fouka, A. Kirk-Spriggs, H. Takano (3♁); Republic of Congo, Sangha prov., N-N NP, Mondika camp (352m) 02°21’50.63”N, 16°16’25.82”E, 7–14.II.2023, Actinic light trap, N.M. Bakala, V. Dérozier, A. Kirk-Spriggs, G. László (1♁); Republic of Congo, Sangha prov., N-N NP, Mbeli camp (372m) 14–20.II.2023, Actinic light trap, N.M. Bakala, V. Dérozier, A. Kirk-Spriggs, G. László (1♁); Republic of Congo, Sangha prov., N-N NP, Mombongo camp 02°10’30.7”N, 16°8’37.7”E (352m) 2–7.II.2023, MV light trap, N.M. Bakala, V. Dérozier, A. Kirk-Spriggs, G. László (1♀); Republic of Congo, Sangha prov., N-N NP, Mondika camp 02°21’50.63”N, 16°15’25.82”E, 7–14.II.2023 (MV light trap), N.M. Bakala, V. Dérozier, A. Kirk-Spriggs, G. László (8♁); Republic of Congo, Sangha prov., N-N NP, Makao camp 02°35’42.2”N, 17°10’08.3”E, 15–21.V.2023, MV Light Trap, V. Dérozier, A. Kirk-Spriggs, G. László, S. Mvouende (8♁); Republic of Congo, Sangha prov., N-N NP, Mondika camp 02°21’50.63”N, 16°15’25.82”E, 27.IV–6.V.2023, MV light trap, V. Dérozier, A. Kirk-Spriggs, G. László, S. Mvouende (2♁) (ANHRT).
Distribution. Previously known from Central African Republic, Gabon, Liberia (Massa 2021b), Guinea, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire (as Mangomaloba latipennis Chopard, 1954; cf. Massa 2022b), here recorded also from Republic of Congo.
description: Published as part of Massa, Bruno, 2023, Biodiversity hotspot in the Sangha Trinational Protected Area revealed through Orthoptera Tettigoniidae, pp. 1-67 in Zootaxa 5331 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5331.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8260962