Species Ellipsidion australe (Saussure, 1863)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thyrsocera (Ellipsidion) australis Saussure, H. de 1863. Mélanges orthoptérologiques. Ier Fascicule, Blattides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 17: 129-170 [146].

  Type data:

   Holotype ♀ adult, Australia.
• Apolyta pellucida Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. 1865. Nouveau système des Blattaires. Vienna : G. Braumüller 426 pp. 13 pls. [114].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) GMNH ♂ ♀ adults, Sydney (as Sidney), NSW.
• Blatta placens 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. [29].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ nymph (Walker listed a ♀ which 'does not seem to be fully developed'; Princis, K. 1959. Revision der Walkerschen und Kirbyschen Blattarientypen im British Museum of Natural History, London. III. Opuscula Entomologica 24: 125–150 (137) says specimen is not female), Australia.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hebard, M. 1943. Australian Blattidae of the subfamilies Chorisoneurinae and Ectobiinae (Orthoptera). Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 4: 1-129 [113]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Diurnal, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Aposematic, foliage frequenting, records from Acacia [Mimosaceae] and Eucalyptus [Myrtaceae] leaves.

General References

Pope, P. 1953. Studies of the life histories of some Queensland Blattidae (Orthoptera). Part 2. Some native species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 63: 47-59 [56]

Shelford, R.W.C. 1908. Orthoptera. Fam. Blattidae, subfam. Phyllodromiinae. Genera Insectorum 73: 1-28 [5] (Blatta placens synonymised under Thyrsocera (Ellipsidion) australis)

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