Species Platyzosteria biglumis (Saussure, 1864)

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

  Type data:

   Neotype QM ♂ adult, 37º39´S 145º31´E, Healesville, VIC.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Mackerras, M.J. 1967. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VII. The Platyzosteria group: general remarks and revision of the subgenera Platyzosteria Brunner and Leptozosteria Tepper. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 1207-1298 [1243] (selected the lectotype of Platyzosteria brigitae Shaw, 1914 as the neotype).
• Platyzosteria perplexa 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 [277].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM ♂ adult, TAS (as V.D.L.).
• Platyzosteria brigitae Shaw, A.E. 1914. Australian Blattidae. Part I. Notes and preliminary descriptions of new species. Victorian Naturalist 31: 103-108 [105].

  Type data:

   Lectotype QM T2863 ♂ adult, 37º39´S 145º31´ E, Healesville, VIC.
  Paralectotype(s) QM T2863 ♀ adult.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Mackerras, M.J. 1967. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VII. The Platyzosteria group: general remarks and revision of the subgenera Platyzosteria Brunner and Leptozosteria Tepper. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 1207-1298 [1243].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mackerras, M.J. 1967. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VII. The Platyzosteria group: general remarks and revision of the subgenera Platyzosteria Brunner and Leptozosteria Tepper. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 1207-1298 [1243]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, under bark.

Extra Ecological Information

Record from light trap.

General References

Dahms, E. 1972. Type-specimens of cockroaches (Blattodea) in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16: 273-289 [284] (QM type information)

Mackerras, M.J. 1967. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VII. The Platyzosteria group: general remarks and revision of the subgenera Platyzosteria Brunner and Leptozosteria Tepper. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 1207-1298 [1243] (redescription, genitalia description)

Princis, K. 1966. Pars 8: Blattariae: Blattoidea: Blattidae, Nocticolidae. pp. 402-614 in Beier, M. (ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. 's-Gravenhage : Dr. W. Junk. [584] (Platyzosteria subaptera Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865 listed as synonym of Platyzosteria (Platyzosteria) biglumis Saussure, 1864)

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