Species Ellipsidion reticulatum Saussure, 1864

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ellipsidion reticulatum Saussure, H. de 1864. Blattarum novarum species aliquot. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 2 16: 305-326 [312].

  Type data:

   Holotype GMNH ? ♀ adult, Australia (as Nova Hollandia).
• Ellipsidion gracile Butler, A.G. 1874. Description of a new species of Blattaria. Cistula Entomologica I(1869–1876): 294-595 [294].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ adult (Princis, K. 1959. Revision der Walkerschen und Kirbyschen Blattarientypen im British Museum of Natural History, London. III. Opuscula Entomologica 24: 125–150 [137] states specimen ♂ not ♀ as listed), Rockhampton, QLD.
• Ellipsidion histrionicum Rehn, J.A.G. 1904. Studies in old world forficulids or earwigs, and blattids or cockroaches. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 27: 539-560 [544].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM ♂ adult, 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 [115]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: 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), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), 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 [115] (new records)

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