Species Calolampra elegans Roth & Princis, 1973

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• Calolampra elegans Roth, L.M. & Princis, K. 1973. The cockroach genus Calolampra of Australia with descriptions of new species (Blaberidae). Psyche (Cambridge) Camb. 80: 101-158 [103] [female not described].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM 269L ♂ adult, Peak Downs, QLD.

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

Crop, granivore, herbivore, litter, soil dweller.

Extra Ecological Information

Male and female apterous, soil dwelling and can be an agricultural pest as it chews seedling stems of sunflower, sorghum, cotton, navy beans and maize.

General References

Cantrell, B.K. 1985. A fly parasite of native cockroaches. Entomological Society of Queensland News Bulletin 13(3): 36

Murray, D.A.H. 1985. Native cockroaches as agricultural pests. Entomological Society of Queensland News Bulletin 13(3): 35

Roth, L.M. 1989. Paranauphoeta rufipes Brunner in Queensland, and a description of the female Calolampra elegans Roth and Princis (Dictyoptera: Blattaria: Blaberidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 27: 589-597

Roth, L.M. 1999. New cockroach species, redescriptions, and records, mostly from Australia, and a description of Metanocticola gen. nov., sp. nov., from Christmas Island (Blattaria). Records of the Western Australian Museum 19: 327-364 [353] (new record)

Zhang, J., Scrivener, A.M., Slaytor, M. & Rose, H.A. 1993. Diet and carbohydrase activities in three cockroaches, Calolampra elegans Roth and Princis, Geoscapheus dilatatus Saussure and Panesthia cribata Saussure. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 104(A): 155-161

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