Species Eppertia furcata (Tepper, 1895)

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• Lepidophora furcata Tepper, J.G.O. 1895. Descriptions of new or little known species of Blattariae. Gryllacridae and Stenopelmatidae collected at Lake Callabonna, S.A. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 19: 19-24 [21].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂ adult, Lake Callabonna, SA.
  Paratype(s) SAMA ♂ adult.
• Zonioploca dixoni Shaw, A.E. 1922. Descriptions of new Australasian blattids with a note on the blattid coxa. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47: 223-231 [231].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T2858 ♂ adult, Central Australia.
  Paratype(s) QM T2858 ♀ adult; NMV ♂ ♀ nymphs (Mackerras, M.J. 1965. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). III. Revision of the genera Zonioploca Stål and Eppertia Shaw. Australian Journal of Zoology 13: 903–927 [921] states nymphs are not the same species as the holotype).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Shaw, A.E. 1925. New genera and species (mostly Australasian) of Blattidae, with notes and some remarks on Tepper's types. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 50: 171-213 [187]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP)

Ecological Descriptors

Unknown.

Extra Ecological Information

Unknown.

General References

Dahms, E. 1972. Type-specimens of cockroaches (Blattodea) in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16: 273-289 [286] (QM type information)

Mackerras, M.J. 1965. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). III. Revision of the genera Zonioploca Stål and Eppertia Shaw. Australian Journal of Zoology 13: 903-927 [921] (redescription, genitalia description)

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