Genus Shelfordina Hebard, 1929

Museums

Regional Maps

• Shelfordina Hebard, M. 1929. Studies in Malayan Blattidae (Orthoptera). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 81: 1-109 [46].

  Type species:

   Phyllodromia terminalis Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1898 by subsequent designation, see Roth, L.M. 1990. Revisionary studies on Blattellidae (Blattaria) from the Indo-Australian region. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28: 597-663 [600] (discusses misidentification of type species and designation of Neoblattella fuscocastanea Hanitsch, 1929 pending application to the ICZN).
• Shelfordella Hanitsch, R. 1933. The blattid fauna of Celebes, based chiefly on the collections made by P. and F. Sarasin. Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel 44: 119-150 [126] [junior homonym of Shelfordella Adelung, 1910 (Blattidae)].

  Type species:

   Shelfordella uniformis Hanitsch, 1933 by monotypy.
• Possoina Strand, E. 1934. Miscellanea nomenclatorica zoologica et palaeontologica. Folia Zoologica et Hydrobiologica 6: 271-277 [275] [nom. nov. for Shelfordella Hanitsch, 1933].
• Ebnerella Hanitsch, R. 1935. On further blattids (Orth.) from Celebes. Stylops 4: 14-19 [14] [nom. nov. for Shelfordella Hanitsch, 1933].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Roth, L.M. 1990. Revisionary studies on Blattellidae (Blattaria) from the Indo-Australian region. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28: 597-663 [600] (also generic revision, subfamily placement)

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Oriental Region (Indo-Malayan and Austro-Malayan subregions), Palaearctic Region (Manchurian subregion), Neotropical Region (Mexican subregion).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

General References

Djernaes, M., Varadínová, Z.K., Kotyk, M., Eulitz, U. & Klass, K.D. 2020. Phylogeny and life history evolution of Blaberoidea (Blattodea). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 78: 29-67 [45] (transferred from previous position in subfamily Pseudophyllodromiinae in family Ectobiidae to reinstated Pseudophyllodromiidae based on molecular data)

Grandcolas, P. 1996. The phylogeny of cockroach families: a cladistic appraisal of morpho-anatomical data. Canadian Journal of Zoology 74: 508-527 (includes Pseudophyllodromiinae in the Pseudophyllodromiidae)

Roth, L.M. 1997. The cockroach genera Shelfordina Hebard, Delosia Bolivar, and Duryodana Kirby (Blattaria, Blattellidae, Pseudophyllodromiinae). Oriental Insects 31: 209-227

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
03-Jan-2012		03-Jan-2012	MOVED
04-Jan-2012		04-Mar-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)