Species Ataxigamia basedowi (Tepper, 1904)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Periplaneta basedowi Tepper, J.G.O. 1904. Descriptions of some new species of Orthoptera from north-western South Australia. No. 1. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 28: 162-167 [162].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA 2♂ ?♀ adults (Tepper listed three winged females as syntypes; Roach, A.M.E. in Roach, A.M.E. & Rentz, D.C.F. 1998. Blattodea. pp. 21–162, 400 (App. III), 407–426 in Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 23 . [97] (E.G. Matthews (SAMA), pers. comm.), says the specimens are male and only two remain), North West SA.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, SA, WA: Burt Plain (BRT), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN)

Ecological Descriptors

Male winged, female unknown.

General References

Dahms, E. 1972. Type-specimens of cockroaches (Blattodea) in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16: 273-289 [282] (wrongly labelled specimen)

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