Species Melanozosteria spryi (Shaw, 1922)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cutilia spryi Shaw, A.E. 1922. Descriptions of new Australasian blattids with a note on the blattid coxa. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 47: 223-231 [228].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T6461 ♂ adult, Spring Bluff, near Toowoomba, QLD.
  Paratype(s) QM 5♂ 3♀ adults.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

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 [278] (QM type information, lists 7 as opposed to 8 paratypes mentioned in original description)

Mackerras, M.J. 1968. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VIII. The Platyzosteria group: subgenus Melanozosteria Stål. Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 237-331 [297] (redescription, genitalia description)

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