Species Escala insignis Shelford, 1906

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• Escala insignis Shelford, R.W.C. 1906. Studies of the Blattidae. I. Remarks on the sub-families Ectobiinae and Phyllodromiinae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 54: 231-279 [240].

  Type data:

   Lectotype OUM ♂ adult, Australia.
  Paralectotype(s) OUM ♂ adult.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Roth, L.M. 1991. The cockroach genera Beybienkoa, gen. nov., Escala Shelford, Eowilsonia, gen. nov., Hensaussurea Princis, Parasigmoidella Hanitsch and Robshelfordia Princis. Invertebrate Taxonomy 5: 553-716 [602]; Roach, A.M.E. in Roach, A.M.E. & Rentz, D.C.F. 1998. Blattodea. 21-162, 400 (App. III), 407-426 in Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 23 xiii 464 pp. [131] (interprets Roth's incorrect inference of holotype as lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tanami (TAN), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Litter.

Extra Ecological Information

Male winged, female wings reduced, record of ant association, collected by light trap.

General References

Princis, K. 1951. Neue und wenig Bekannte Blattarien ans dem Zoologischen Museum, Kopenhagen. Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis 12: 5-72 [62] (misidentified as Loboptera circumcincta Tepper, 1893)

Roth, L.M. 1991. The cockroach genera Beybienkoa, gen. nov., Escala Shelford, Eowilsonia, gen. nov., Hensaussurea Princis, Parasigmoidella Hanitsch and Robshelfordia Princis. Invertebrate Taxonomy 5: 553-716 [602] (redescription)

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