Species Melanozosteria uncinata (Shaw, 1918)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cutilia uncinata Shaw, A.E. 1918. Australian Blattidae. With descriptions of eleven new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 6: 151-167 [158] [listed a male and female as 'types'].

  Type data:

   Lectotype QM T6459 ♂ adult, 14º40´S 145º28´E, Lizard Is., QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) QM T6460 ♀ adult.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Mackerras, M.J. 1968. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VIII. The Platyzosteria group: subgenus Melanozosteria Stål. Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 237-331 [253] (lists Shaws's types and calls a third specimen paratype mentioned by Shaw but not named type).

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), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), 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)

Mackerras, M.J. 1968. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VIII. The Platyzosteria group: subgenus Melanozosteria Stål. Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 237-331 [253] (redescription, genitalia description)

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