Species Ellipsidion femorata (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phyllodromia femorata Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. 1865. Nouveau système des Blattaires. Vienna : G. Braumüller 426 pp. 13 pls. [101].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) GMNH ♂ ♀ adults, Sydney (as Sidney), NSW.
• Blatta depressa 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. [28].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult, Australia.
• Blatta (Phyllodromia) albovittata Saussure, H. de 1873. Mélanges orthoptérologiques. IVme fascicule, Mantides et Blattides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 23: 1-164 [95].

  Type data:

   Lectotype GMNH ? adult, Australia (as La Nouvelle Hollande).
  Paralectotype(s) GMNH ? 2 adults.

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 [102]

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), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Diurnal, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Aposematic, foliage frequenting.

General References

Hebard, M. 1943. Australian Blattidae of the subfamilies Chorisoneurinae and Ectobiinae (Orthoptera). Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 4: 1-129 [102] (new records)

Saussure, H. de 1869. Mélanges orthoptérologiques. IIme fascicule Blattides et Phasmides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 20: 227-326 [250] (misidentified as Apolyta aurantia)

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