Species Melanozosteria nigrofasciata (Shaw, 1918)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cutilia nigrofasciata Shaw, A.E. 1918. Australian Blattidae. With descriptions of eleven new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 6: 151-167 [160].

  Type data:

   Lectotype QM T6446 ♂ adult, 30º56´S 117º51´E, Waddouring, WA.
  Paralectotype(s) QM T6447 ♀ adult.

  Type locality references:

  Mackerras, M.J. 1968. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VIII. The Platyzosteria group: subgenus Melanozosteria Stål. Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 237-331 [285].

 

Generic Combinations

• Melanozosteria nigrofasciata (Shaw, 1918). —
  Princis, K. 1966. Pars 8: Blattariae: Blattoidea: Blattidae, Nocticolidae. pp. 402-614 in Beier, M. (ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. 's-Gravenhage : Dr. W. Junk. [577]
• Platyzosteria (Melanozosteria) nigrofasciata (Shaw, 1918). —
  Mackerras, M.J. 1968. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VIII. The Platyzosteria group: subgenus Melanozosteria Stål. Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 237-331 [285]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Only published localities Mullewa, 41 miles NE of Mullewa, Morawa, Coorow, Wubin and Waddouring.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Under bark.

 

General References

Dahms, E. 1972. Type-specimens of cockroaches (Blattodea) in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16: 273-289 [276] (QM type information)

Mackerras, M.J. 1968. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VIII. The Platyzosteria group: subgenus Melanozosteria Stål. Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 237-331 [285] (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)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
18-Aug-2021		05-Jun-2012	MOVED
03-Jan-2012		03-Jan-2012	MOVED
03-Jan-2012		03-Jan-2012	MOVED
04-Jan-2012		04-Mar-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)