Species Euzosteria tuberculata Shaw, 1925

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• Euzosteria tuberculata 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 [177].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T2877 ♀ adult, Raak Plains, Mallee district, VIC.
  Paratype(s) QM T2877 3 adults 1 ♀ nymph.

  Type locality references:

  Mackerras, M.J. 1965. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). II. Revision of the genus Euzosteria Shelford. Australian Journal of Zoology 13: 883-902 [897].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, SA, Vic, WA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), 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), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Diurnal.

Extra Ecological Information

Ground dwellers that shelter under spinifex tussocks and litter, record from spinifex.

General References

Dahms, E. 1972. Type-specimens of cockroaches (Blattodea) in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16: 273-289 [281] (QM type information)

Mackerras, M.J. 1965. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). II. Revision of the genus Euzosteria Shelford. Australian Journal of Zoology 13: 883-902 [897] (redescription, genitalia description)

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