Genus Leptozosteria Tepper, 1893

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• Leptozosteria Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 25-126 [published June] [96].

  Type species:

   Leptozosteria prima Tepper, 1893 by monotypy.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, SA, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Yalgoo (YAL)

General References

Mackerras, M.J. 1967. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VII. The Platyzosteria group: general remarks and revision of the subgenera Platyzosteria Brunner and Leptozosteria Tepper. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 1207-1298 (key to species)

Mackerras, M.J. 1968. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VIII. The Platyzosteria group: subgenus Melanozosteria Stål. Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 237-331

Roth, L.M. 2003. Systematics and phylogeny of cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Blattaria). Oriental Insects 37: 1-186 (Leptozosteria raised to status of genus)

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