Species Cosmozosteria bicolor (Saussure, 1864)

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• Polyzosteria bicolor Saussure, H. de 1864. Blattarum novarum species aliquot. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 2 16: 305-326 [307].

  Type data:

   Lectotype GMNH ♂ adult, QLD (as Nouv. Holl.).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Mackerras, M.J. 1967. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VI. Revision of the genus Cosmozosteria Stål. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 593-618 [597].
• Polyzosteria (Platyzosteria) ligata Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. 1865. Nouveau système des Blattaires. Vienna : G. Braumüller 426 pp. 13 pls. [220].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHMW ♂ adult, Port Curtis, QLD (as Port-Curtis, Nouvelle-Hollande).

  Type locality references:

  Mackerras, M.J. 1967. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VI. Revision of the genus Cosmozosteria Stål. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 593-618 [597].
• Polyzosteria circumcincta Walker, F. 1871. Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. Part V. Supplement to the Catalogue of Blattariae. London : British Museum (Natural History) 40 pp. [36].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult, Australia.
• Polyzosteria marginata Schmeltz, J.D.E & Pöhl, C.A. (eds) 1877. Insecta. Ordo I. Orthoptera. pp. in Catalog VI der zum Verkauf stehenden Doubletten aus den Naturhistorischen Expeditionen der Herren Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Sohn in Hamburg. Hamburg : L. Friedrichsen & Co. 18-23 pp. [19] [nom. nud., see Princis, K. 1966. Pars 8: Blattariae: Blattoidea: Blattidae, Nocticolidae. pp. 402–614 in Beier, M. (ed). Orthopterorum Catalogus. Gravenhage : Junk . (595)].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Kirby, W.F. 1904. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 1 501 pp. [132]

Generic Combinations

• Cosmozosteria bicolor (Saussure, 1864). —
  Kirby, W.F. 1904. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera. Orthoptera, Euplexoptera, Cursoria, et Gressoria (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae). London : Longmans & Co. Vol. 1 x 501 pp. [132]
• Cosmozosteria ligata (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865). —
  Stål, C. 1874. Recherches sur le système des Blattaires. Bihang till Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 2: 3-18 [13]
• Platyzostera ligata (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865). —
  Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 25-126 [published June] [93]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Diurnal.

Extra Ecological Information

Often found sunbasking on ground, rocks and low foliage.

General References

Mackerras, M.J. 1967. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VI. Revision of the genus Cosmozosteria Stål. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 593-618 [597] (redescription, genitalia description)

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 [356] (new records)

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