Species Balta patula (Walker, 1869)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Blatta patula Walker, F. 1869. Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria and Supplement to the Blattariae in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. London : British Museum (Natural History) 224 pp. [143].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ adult, Sydney, NSW.
• Apolyta pallida 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:

   Syntype(s) SAMA 2♂ 6♀ adults, Mount Lofty Ranges, Tanunda and Kangaroo Is., SA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hebard, M. 1943. Australian Blattidae of the subfamilies Chorisoneurinae and Ectobiinae (Orthoptera). Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 4: 1-129 [49] (new records)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, under bark, volant.

General References

Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. 1865. Nouveau système des Blattaires. Vienna : G. Braumüller 426 pp. 13 pls. [109] (single specimen from Sydney in type series of three misidentified as Phyllodromia latipennis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)

Princis, K. 1954. Report from Professor T. Gislén's Expedition to Australia in 1951–1952. 10. Australian Blattariae. Acta Universitatis Lundensis 50: 1-49 [46] (new records)

Shelford, R.W.C. 1906. Studies of the Blattidae. V. The types of Blattidae described by Francis Walker, and now in the Hope Museum, Oxford. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 54: 487-509 [495] (Blatta patula erroneously synonymised under Blatta latirupta Walker, 1869)

Shelford, R.W.C. 1908. Orthoptera. Fam. Blattidae, subfam. Phyllodromiinae. Genera Insectorum 73: 1-28 [18] (Blatta patula erroneously synonymised under similis)

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