Species Ellipsidion humerale (Tepper, 1893)
- Apolyta humeralis Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 25-126 [published June] [46].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA ♀ adult, NT (as Northern Territory of South Australia). - Ellipsidion affine Hebard, M. 1943. Australian Blattidae of the subfamilies Chorisoneurinae and Ectobiinae (Orthoptera). Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 4: 1-129 [106].
Type data:
Holotype ANSP 1167 ♂ adult, Cairns, Nares, QLD.
Paratype(s) ANSP 2♀ adults; QM T5443 ♀ adult. - Ellipsidion uniforme Hebard, M. 1943. Australian Blattidae of the subfamilies Chorisoneurinae and Ectobiinae (Orthoptera). Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 4: 1-129 [109].
Type data:
Holotype NMV ♂ adult, Geraldton, Victoria, WA.
Paratype(s) NMV ♀ adult; NMV & ANSP 2♂ 2♀ adults (number of specimens in each institution not specified).
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Also found in New Guinea (Roth 1999).
IBRA
NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Distribution References
Ecological Descriptors
Diurnal, volant.
Extra Ecological Information
Aposematic, foliage frequenting.
General References
Dahms, E. 1972. Type-specimens of cockroaches (Blattodea) in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16: 273-289 (QM type information)
Hebard, M. 1943. Australian Blattidae of the subfamilies Chorisoneurinae and Ectobiinae (Orthoptera). Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 4: 1-129 [110] (new records)
Pope, P. 1953. Studies of the life histories of some Queensland Blattidae (Orthoptera). Part 2. Some native species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 63: 47-59 [54]
Roth, L.M. 1995. New species and records of cockroaches from Western Australia (Blattaria). Records of the Western Australian Museum 17: 153-161 (new records)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 03-Jan-2012 | 03-Jan-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 02-May-2011 | 02-May-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 04-Jan-2012 | 29-Apr-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |