Species Paratemnopteryx couloniana (Saussure, 1863)
- Blatta couloniana Saussure, H. de 1863. Mélanges orthoptérologiques. Ier Fascicule, Blattides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 17: 129-170 [150].
Type data:
Lectotype MHNB ♂ adult, Australia (as La Nouvelle-Hollande).
Paralectotype(s) MHNB ♀ 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 [562]. - Paratemnopteryx blattoides 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 [150] [number of specimens in type series not specified, although
and more than one listed from Narre Warren and Melbourne]. Type data:
Lectotype NMV ♂ adult, Narre Warren, VIC.
Paralectotype(s) NMV 1♂ 1 sex unknown adults.Subsequent designation references:
Roth, L.M. 1990. A revision of the Australian Parcoblattini (Blattaria: Blattellidae: Blattellinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28: 531-596 [562] (lists 2specimens, one of which was incorrectly labelled female, from Narre Warren, presumably there is one more paralectotype, sex uncertain, from Melbourne which has not been seen). - Blatta brunneri Kirby, W.F. 1903. Notes on Blattidae etc., with descriptions of new genera and species in the collection of the British Museum, South Kensington. No. III. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12: 373-381 [375] [name proposed for specimens misidentified as Periplaneta concinna De Haan, 1842 by Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. 1865. Nouveau système des Blattaires. Vienna : G. Braumüller 426 pp. 13 pls. (229), therefore type specimens are the
described by Brunner von Wattenwyl, Art. 72(b)ii, ICZN 1985]. Type data:
Syntype(s) NHMW ♂ ♀ adults (depository uncertain), Java and Australia (as Nouvelle-Hollande).
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Introduced into New Zealand.
IBRA
ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)
Ecological Descriptors
Litter, under bark.
Extra Ecological Information
Wings reduced, records of infesting houses and eating paper and clothes, collected at light.
General References
Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. 1865. Nouveau système des Blattaires. Vienna : G. Braumüller 426 pp. 13 pls. [229] (Paratemnopteryx couloniana misidentified as Periplantea concinna De Hann, 1842)
Johns, P.M. 1966. The cockroaches of New Zealand. Records of the Canterbury Museum 8: 93-136 [134] (record of introduction into New Zealand)
May, B.M. 1963. New entomological records. New Zealand Entomologist 3: 44-53 [44] (misidentified as Methana sp.)
Princis, K. 1954. Report from Professor T. Gislén's Expedition to Australia in 1951–1952. 10. Australian Blattariae. Acta Universitatis Lundensis 50: 1-49 [35] (Blatta brunneri synonymised under Shawella couloniana)
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 [19] (Paratemnopteryx couloniana misidentified as Ceratinoptera couloniana)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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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 | 02-May-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |