Species Dyakinodes centralis (Walker, 1868)

Museums

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• Ischnoptera centralis Walker, F. 1868. Catalogue of the Specimens of Blattariae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) 239 pp. [120].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult, SA.
• Ischnoptera brunneonigra Tepper, J.G.O. 1895. Notes on Victorian and other Blattariae and descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 19: 146-166 [155].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV ♀ adult, Fernshaw, VIC.
• Dyakinodes victoriae Princis, K. 1951. Neue und wenig Bekannte Blattarien ans dem Zoologischen Museum, Kopenhagen. Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis 12: 5-72 [67].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMUC ♂ adult, VIC.

  Secondary source:

   Rentz, D.C.F. & Cameron, H.M. 1983. Catalogue of Australian Cockroaches. CSIRO Australia. Division of Entomology Technical Paper 21: 1-37 [20].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Princis, K. 1959. Revision der Walkerschen und Kirbyschen Blattarientypen im British Museum of Natural History, London. III. Opuscula Entomologica. Lund 24: 125-150 [140] (Dyakinodes victoriae synonymised under Ischnoptera centralis)
• Roth, L.M. 1990. Revisionary studies on Blattellidae (Blattaria) from the Indo-Australian region. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28: 597-663 [640] (synonymised Ischnoptera brunneonigra under Ischnoptera centralis, redescription)

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, under bark, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Recorded from flight intercept trap.

General References

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

Princis, K. 1969. Pars 13: Blattariae: Subordo Epilamproidea, Fam. Blattellidae. pp. 713-1038 in Beier, M. (ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. 's-Gravenhage : Dr. W. Junk. [1002] (Ischnoptera brunneonigra listed as incertae sedis)

Roth, L.M. 1985. A taxonomic revision of the genus Blattella Caudell (Dictyoptera, Blattaria: Blattellidae). Entomologica Scandinavica. Supplementum 22: 1-221 [212] (Ischnoptera brunneonigra listed as incertae sedis)

Shaw, A.E. 1916. Australian Blattidae. II. On the type of Ischnoptera brunneonigra Tepper, with a description of the male insect. Victorian Naturalist 33(6): 86-88 [86] (misidentification of Ischnoptera brunneonigra)

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