Species Pycnoscelus indicus (Fabricius, 1775)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Blatta indica Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema Entomologiae, sistens Insectorum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adiectis Synonymis, Locis, Descriptionibus, Observationibus. Flensburgi et Lipsiae [= Flensburg & Leipzig] : Kortii xxxii 832 pp. [Date published 17 April] [272] [number, sex and location of type specimens not specified].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH adult, India (as India orientali).

  Type locality references:

  Zimsen, E. 1964. The Type Material of I.C. Fabricius. Copenhagen : Munksgaard 656 pp. [614] (lists 2 specimens in BMNH, one with a type label beside it, and 2 specimens in ZMUC).

Generic Combinations

• Pycnoscelus indicus (Fabricius, 1775). —
  Roth, L.M. 1967. Sexual isolation in parthenogenetic Pycnoscelus surinamensis and application of the name Pycnoscelus indicus to its bisexual relative (Dictyoptera: Blattaria: Blaberidae: Pycnoscelinae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 60: 774-778

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Introduced from unknown locality.

Ecological Descriptors

Volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Bisexual.

General References

Princis, K. 1970. La fauna terrestre de l'île de Saint-Hélèna. (Première partie). 5. Blattariae. Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale Tervuren Belgique 8 181: 165-176 [171] (listed in synonymy under Blatta surinamensis Linnaeus, 1758)

Roth, L.M. 1967. Sexual isolation in parthenogenetic Pycnoscelus surinamensis and application of the name Pycnoscelus indicus to its bisexual relative (Dictyoptera: Blattaria: Blaberidae: Pycnoscelinae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 60: 774-778 [774] (Blatta indica removed from synonymy under Blatta surinmensis Linnaeus, 1758)

Roth, L.M. & Cohen, S.H. 1968. Chromosomes of the Pycnoscelus indicus and P. surinamensis complex (Blattaria: Blaberidae: Pycnoscelinae). Psyche (Cambridge) Camb. 75: 53-76

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