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Least Concern (LC)
Assessors: Corinna Bazelet Piotr Naskrecki
Reviewers: Axel Hochkirch Mark Bushell

Rationale

The threat status of the Black-spotted Plangia is Least Concern because it has a large extent of occurrence and, due to its sporadic pest status, affinity for cultivated crops and presence within protected areas, its geographic range is not expected to be severely fragmented or to experience decline in the foreseeable future.  

Distribution

The Black-spotted Plangia (Plangia compressa) is widespread throughout South Africa. It is found in Northern Cape, Western Cape, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal Provinces, South Africa.

Population trend

Trend

No information on population sizes or trends is available.

Threats

The greatest threat to this species is habitat destruction, but due to its widespread distribution affinity for cultivated crops and propensity to outbreak sporadically, it is not directly threatened.

Uses and trade

This species is not utilized.

Conservation

No specific conservation measures are in place for this species but it is known to occur in several protected areas, including Namaqua National Park, Jonkershoek, and Cederberg Nature Reserves. 

References 

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 title = {The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1},
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}
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 author = {Ragge, D.R.},
 journal = {Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology},
 pages = {67--192},
 title = {A review of the African Phaneropterinae with open tympana (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae)},
 volume = {40.0},
 year = {1980}
}
,]
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