Species Laxta tillyardi Roth, 1992

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• Laxta tillyardi Roth, L.M. 1992. The Australian cockroach genus Laxta Walker (Dicyoptera: Blattaria: Blaberidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 389-435 [411].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♂ adult, Rundle Ra., near Mt Larcom, between Gladstone and Rockhampton, QLD.
  Paratype(s) ANIC 3♂ adults; EUQ 3♂ adults.

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Torres Strait Islands terrestrial, marine & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Rotting wood, under bark.

Extra Ecological Information

Male winged, female apterous.

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] (first record for New Guinea (Ifar, West Papua))

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