Species Melanozosteria castanea (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)

Museums

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• Polyzosteria (Platyzosteria) castanea Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. 1865. Nouveau système des Blattaires. Vienna : G. Braumüller 426 pp. 13 pls. [214].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NHMW ♀ adult, Sydney (as Sidney), NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) NHMW 2♂ 3♀ adults.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Mackerras, M.J. 1968. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VIII. The Platyzosteria group: subgenus Melanozosteria Stål. Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 237-331 [267].
• Polyzosteria coxalis Walker, F. 1871. Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. Part V. Supplement to the Catalogue of Blattariae. London : British Museum (Natural History) 40 pp. [35].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ adult, (Bombay).

  Type locality references:

  Mackerras, M.J. 1968. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VIII. The Platyzosteria group: subgenus Melanozosteria Stål. Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 237-331 [267] (questions type locality).
• Platyzosteria exaspera Tepper, J.G.O. 1894. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Supplementary and additional descriptions and notes. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 18: 165-189 [183].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♂ adult, VIC.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mackerras, M.J. 1968. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VIII. The Platyzosteria group: subgenus Melanozosteria Stål. Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 237-331 [267]

Generic Combinations

• Platyzosteria castanea (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865). —
  Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 25-126 [published June] [89]

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

Under bark.

Extra Ecological Information

Record from granite outcrop.

General References

Dahms, E. 1972. Type-specimens of cockroaches (Blattodea) in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16: 273-289 [284] (mislabelled specimen)

Mackerras, M.J. 1968. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VIII. The Platyzosteria group: subgenus Melanozosteria Stål. Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 237-331 [267] (redescription, genitalia description)

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 [358] (new records)

Waterhouse, D.F. & Wallbank, B.E. 1967. 2-methylene butanal and related compounds in the defensive scent of Platyzosteria cockroaches (Blattidae: Polyzosteriinae). Journal of Insect Physiology 13: 1657-1669

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