Species Laxta granicollis (Saussure, 1862)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Zetobora granicollis Saussure, H. de 1862. Orthoptera nova americana (Diagnoses praeliminaires). Series III. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 14(2): 63-71, 227-234 [232].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ♂ adult, Australia (as Nov. Holl.).
  Paralectotype(s) 2♂ adults.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Roth, L.M. 1992. The Australian cockroach genus Laxta Walker (Dicyoptera: Blattaria: Blaberidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 389-435 [393].
• Oniscosoma castanea Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. 1865. Nouveau système des Blattaires. Vienna : G. Braumüller 426 pp. 13 pls. [300].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NHMW ♂ adult, Eastern and Southern Australia (as orientalies et meridionales de la Nouvelle-Hollande).
  Paralectotype(s) NHMW ♀ adult.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Roth, L.M. 1992. The Australian cockroach genus Laxta Walker (Dicyoptera: Blattaria: Blaberidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 389-435 [393].
• Oniscosoma pallida Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. 1865. Nouveau système des Blattaires. Vienna : G. Braumüller 426 pp. 13 pls. [301].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NHMW ♂ adult, NSW (as New Sud Wales).
  Paralectotype(s) NHMW ♀ adult.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Roth, L.M. 1992. The Australian cockroach genus Laxta Walker (Dicyoptera: Blattaria: Blaberidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 389-435 [393].
• Laxta oniscoides Walker, F. 1868. Catalogue of the Specimens of Blattariae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) 239 pp. [18].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀ nymph, Australia.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♀ nymph.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Princis, K. 1957. Revision der Walker'schen und Kirby'schen Blattarientypen im British Museum of Natural History, London. Opuscula Entomologica. Lund 22: 87-96, 97-116 [108].
• Zetobora antica Walker, F. 1868. Catalogue of the Specimens of Blattariae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) 239 pp. [47].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂ adult, Australia.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 7♂ adults.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Princis, K. 1957. Revision der Walker'schen und Kirby'schen Blattarientypen im British Museum of Natural History, London. Opuscula Entomologica. Lund 22: 87-96, 97-116 [108].
• Perisphaeria laminata Walker, F. 1868. Catalogue of the Specimens of Blattariae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) 239 pp. [178].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀ adult, Australia.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 2♂ 2♀ nymphs.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Princis, K. 1957. Revision der Walker'schen und Kirby'schen Blattarientypen im British Museum of Natural History, London. Opuscula Entomologica. Lund 22: 87-96, 97-116 [108].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Roth, L.M. 1992. The Australian cockroach genus Laxta Walker (Dicyoptera: Blattaria: Blaberidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 389-435 [392] (also redescription, genitalia description)

Generic Combinations

• Oniscosoma granicollis (Saussure, 1862). —
  Saussure, H. de 1873. Mélanges orthoptérologiques. IVme fascicule, Mantides et Blattides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 23: 1-164
• Laxta granicollis (Saussure, 1862). —
  Princis, K. 1952. Kritisches verzeichnis der Blattarien Chinas und Tibets. Opuscula Entomologica. Lund 17: 33-44 [41]
• Laxta pallida (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865). —
  Princis, K. 1963. Pars 4: Blattariae: Subordo Polyphagoidea: Fam. Homoeogamiidae, Euthyrrhaphidae, Latindiidae, Anacompsidae, Atticolidae, Attaphilidae. Subordo Blaberoidea: Fam. Blaberidae. pp. 77-172 in Beier, M. (ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. 's-Gravenhage : Dr. W. Junk. [147]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Rotting wood, under bark.

Extra Ecological Information

Male winged, female apterous, records from under bark of Eucalyptus saligna, E. amplifolia, E. obliqua, E. globulus, E. camaldulensis [Myrtaceae], Angophora costata [Myrtaceae], Acacia sp. [Mimosaceae], Casuarina sp. [Casuarinaceae] and in pinnae of Macrozamia communis [Zamaceae].

General References

Roth, L.M. 1999. New cockroach species, redescriptions, and records, mostly from Australia, and a description of Metanocticola gen. nov., sp. nov., from Christmas Island (Blattaria). Records of the Western Australian Museum 19: 327-364 [347] (new records)

Saussure, H. de 1863. Mélanges orthoptérologiques. Ier Fascicule, Blattides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 17: 129-170 [161] (description, measurements and illustration of holotype)

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