Species Drymaplaneta communis Tepper, 1893

Museums

Regional Maps

• Drymaplaneta communis Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 25-126 [published June] [110] [mentioned the number but not sex of the specimens examined].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA ♂ adult, 34º26´S 137º54´E, Ardrossan, SA.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA 10 adults.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Mackerras, M.J. 1968. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). IX. Revision of Polyzosteriinae tribe Methanini, Tryonicinae, and Blattinae. Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 511-575 [544].
• Drymaplaneta submarginata Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 25-126 [published June] [111] [number or sex of type series not specified].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA ♂ adult, Karatta, Kangaroo Is., SA.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA adults nymphs (unknown number and sex).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Mackerras, M.J. 1968. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). IX. Revision of Polyzosteriinae tribe Methanini, Tryonicinae, and Blattinae. Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 511-575 [544]; Roach, A.M.E. in Roach, A.M.E. & Rentz, D.C.F. 1998. Blattodea. 21-162, 400 (App. III), 407-426 in Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 23 xiii 464 pp. [35] (interprets Mackerra's incorrect inference of holotype as lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).
• Methana antipodum Brancsik, C. 1897. Series Orthopterorum novorum. Jahresheft Naturwissenscheftlichen Vereins des Trencsiner Comitat 19-20: 52-85, tabs i-ii [dated 1897] [58] [number of type specimens not specified although measurements imply more than one].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) OUM ♀ adult, Yorketown, SA; whereabouts unknown (number and sex of remaining types unknown), Yorketown, SA.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Shelford, R.W.C. 1909. Studies of the Blattidae. X. A revision of the old-world Blattinae belonging to the Polyzosteria group. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1909(2): 253-327 [285, 286] (Methana antipodum as synonym of Drymaplaneta communis, Drymaplaneta submarginata as synonym of Periplaneta circumducta Walker, 1868)
• Mackerras, M.J. 1968. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). IX. Revision of Polyzosteriinae tribe Methanini, Tryonicinae, and Blattinae. Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 511-575 [544] (redescription, genitalia description)

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Under bark.

Extra Ecological Information

Record from under stones, under eucalypt bark and indoors.

General References

Dahms, E. 1972. Type-specimens of cockroaches (Blattodea) in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16: 273-289 [279] (invalidly labelled specimens)

History of changes