Species Euzosteria subverrucosa (White, 1841)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Blatta subverrucosa White, A. 1841. Notes on some insects from King George's Sound, collected and presented to the British Museum by Captain George Grey. pp. 450-470 in Grey, G. (ed.). Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government. Describing many newly discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical condition of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. London : T. & W. Boone Vol. 2 vii 482 pp. [Date published Nov. 1841] [467].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂ adult, King George Sound, WA.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♀ adult.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Mackerras, M.J. 1965. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). II. Revision of the genus Euzosteria Shelford. Australian Journal of Zoology 13: 883-902 [886]; 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. [52] (interprets Mackerras's incorrect inference of type as lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).
• Polyzosteria (Polyzosteria) reflexa Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. 1865. Nouveau système des Blattaires. Vienna : G. Braumüller 426 pp. 13 pls. [208].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHMW ♂ ♀ adults, Swan River, WA.
• Polyzosteria figurata Walker, F. 1868. Catalogue of the Specimens of Blattariae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) 239 pp. [157].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 2♀ nymphs, Swan River, WA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Princis, K. 1966. Pars 8: Blattariae: Blattoidea: Blattidae, Nocticolidae. pp. 402-614 in Beier, M. (ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. 's-Gravenhage : Dr. W. Junk. [566]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Only published localities Swan River district, King George Sound and (SA).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Diurnal.

Extra Ecological Information

Ground dwellers that shelter under spinifex tussocks and litter.

 

General References

Mackerras, M.J. 1965. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). II. Revision of the genus Euzosteria Shelford. Australian Journal of Zoology 13: 883-902 [888] (doubts P. figurata is a synonym of E. subverrucosa)

Tepper, J.G.O. 1894. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Supplementary and additional descriptions and notes. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 18: 165-189 [178] (incorrect subsequent spelling as Blatta verrucosa)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
03-Jan-2012		03-Jan-2012	MOVED
03-Jan-2012		03-Jan-2012	MOVED
04-Jan-2012		02-May-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)