Species Choristima astylata Roth, 1992

Museums

Regional Maps

• Choristima astylata Roth, L.M. 1992. The Australian cockroach genus Choristima Tepper (Blattaria, Blattellidae: Ectobiinae). Entomologica Scandinavica 23: 121-151 [136].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult, 18º55´S 123º27´E, 145 km SEbyE of Broome, WA.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 11♂ ♀ adults; QM 2♂ adults; MCZ 2♂ adults.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Finke (FIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, under bark, volant.

General References

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 [342] (new record from SE of Broome, WA)

History of changes