Species Methana marginalis (Saussure, 1864)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Periplaneta marginalis Saussure, H. de 1864. Blattarum novarum species aliquot. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 2 16: 305-326 [319].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP 7 adults, Australia (as Nova Hollandia).
• Periplaneta ligata Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. 1865. Nouveau système des Blattaires. Vienna : G. Braumüller 426 pp. 13 pls. [234].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHMW ♂ ♀ adults, Moreton Bay, Port Curtis, QLD.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Shelford, R.W.C. 1909. Studies of the Blattidae. X. A revision of the old-world Blattinae belonging to the Polyzosteria group. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1909(2): 253-327 [308]

Generic Combinations

• Methana marginalis (Saussure, 1864). —
  Kirby, W.F. 1904. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera. Orthoptera, Euplexoptera, Cursoria, et Gressoria (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae). London : Longmans & Co. Vol. 1 x 501 pp. [136]

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), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Under bark, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Records from under bark of dead trees and in foliage of living trees, ootheca fastened to undersides of loose bark and leaves and covered with debris.

General References

Mackerras, M.J. 1968. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). IX. Revision of Polyzosteriinae tribe Methanini, Tryonicinae, and Blattinae. Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 511-575 [519] (redescription, genitalia description, type series information)

Pope, P. 1953. Studies of the life histories of some Queensland Blattidae (Orthoptera). Part 2. Some native species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 63: 47-59 [50]

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 [360] (new record)

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