Subspecies Geoscapheus crenulatus crenulatus (Shaw, 1925)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Plana crenulata Shaw, A.E. 1925. New genera and species (mostly Australasian) of Blattidae, with notes and some remarks on Tepper's types. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 50: 171-213 [209].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T2861 ♂ adult, Noosa Head, QLD.
  Paratype(s) QM T2861a ♀ adult.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, litter, soil dweller.

Extra Ecological Information

Lives in spiral-shaped burrows and feeds on Eucalyptus spp. [Myrtaceae] leaf litter collected from ground surface, burrows in very sandy soils, female exhibits lengthy parental care of young in burrow.

General References

Dahms, E. 1972. Type-specimens of cockroaches (Blattodea) in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16: 273-289 [283] (QM type information)

Roth, L.M. 1977. A taxonomic revision of the Panesthiinae of the world. I. The Panesthiinae of Australia (Dictyoptera: Blattaria: Blaberidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 48: 1-112 [51] (redescription)

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