Species Neotemnopteryx fulva (Saussure, 1863)

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• Ischnoptera fulva Saussure, H. de 1863. Mélanges orthoptérologiques. Ier Fascicule, Blattides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 17: 129-170 [156].

  Type data:

   Neotype ANIC ♂ adult, Canberra, ACT.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Roth, L.M. 1990. A revision of the Australian Parcoblattini (Blattaria: Blattellidae: Blattellinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28: 531-596 [539] (Saussure says specimen is in MHNB; Roth says original specimen is not in MHNB or GMNH so is presumed lost).
• Ischnoptera australica Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. 1865. Nouveau système des Blattaires. Vienna : G. Braumüller 426 pp. 13 pls. [131] [number of specimens in type series not specified, although Brunner von Wattenwyl listed Tarangower and Sydney (as Sidney) as localities].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NHMW ♂ adult, Tarangower, NSW (as Nue-Sud-Wales).
  Paralectotype(s) NHMW ♂ adult.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Roth, L.M. 1990. A revision of the Australian Parcoblattini (Blattaria: Blattellidae: Blattellinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28: 531-596 [539] (states that lectotype and paralectotype were selected by Princis in 1965 but these have no status as the designation was not published and the specimen selected as paralectotype by Princis with the locality QLD was not mentioned by Brunner von Wattenwyl in his original description).
• Periplaneta apicalis Walker, F. 1868. Catalogue of the Specimens of Blattariae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) 239 pp. [129].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ adult (Roth, L.M. 1990. A revision of the Australian Parcoblattini (Blattaria: Blattellidae: Blattellinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28: 531–596 [540] specimen male, not female as indicated by Walker), Australia.
• Temnopteryx ferruginea Tepper, J.G.O. 1895. Notes on Victorian and other Blattariae and descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 19: 146-166 [148].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV ♀ adult, Fernshaw, VIC.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Cave dweller, coprophagous, litter, under bark.

Extra Ecological Information

Record of feeding on bird guano in caves, cavernicolous females with reduced wing size, record from Karri forest and taken in light trap.

General References

Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. 1862. Ueber die von der K.K. Fregatte Novara mitgebbrachten Orthopteren. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12: 87-96 [95] (Ischnoptera australica, nom. nud.)

Kirby, W.F. 1904. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera. London : British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 1 501 pp. [81] (Ischnoptera australica and Periplaneta apicalis Walker incorrectly synonymised under Ischnoptera australis Saussure, 1863)

Richards, A.M. 1971. An ecological study of the cavernicolous fauna of the Nullarbor Plain Southern Australia. Journal of Zoology, London 164: 1-60

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