Genus Paratemnopteryx Saussure, 1869
- Paratemnopteryx Saussure, H. de 1869. Mélanges orthoptérologiques. IIme fascicule Blattides et Phasmides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 20: 227-326 [273].
Type species:
Paratemnopteryx australis Saussure, 1869 by monotypy. - Shawella Princis, K. 1951. Neue und wenig Bekannte Blattarien ans dem Zoologischen Museum, Kopenhagen. Spolia Zoologica Musei Hauniensis 12: 5-72 [61].
Type species:
Blatta couloniana Saussure, 1863 by monotypy. - Franwalkeria Princis, K. 1954. Report from Professor T. Gislén's Expedition to Australia in 1951–1952. 10. Australian Blattariae. Acta Universitatis Lundensis 50: 1-49 [34].
Type species:
Franwalkeria glauerti Princis, 1954 by original designation.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Roth, L.M. 1990. A revision of the Australian Parcoblattini (Blattaria: Blattellidae: Blattellinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28: 531-596 [560] (also generic revision)
Introduction
Roth (1999) lists an unidentified species "Paratemnopteryx sp. 1" from from two caves in the Eneabba region of western Australia, commenting that it was recorded previously from pitfalls in Queensland and bat caves in the Northern Territory.
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Oriental Region (Austro-Malayan subregion).
IBRA
ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), 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), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
Distribution References
General References
Djernaes, M., Varadínová, Z.K., Kotyk, M., Eulitz, U. & Klass, K.D. 2020. Phylogeny and life history evolution of Blaberoidea (Blattodea). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 78: 29-67 [45] (Blattellidae reinstated to family based on molecular data, previously as subfamily Blattellinae in family Ectobiidae)
Howarth, F.G. & Stone, F.D. 1990. Elevated carbon dioxide levels in Bayliss Cave, Australia: implication for the evolution of obligate cave species. Pacific Science 44: 207-218 (mentions unidentified species of this genus from caves)
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 [335]
History of changes
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03-Jan-2012 | 03-Jan-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) |