Species Platyzosteria scabra (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)

Museums

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• Polyzosteria (Platyzosteria) scabra Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. 1865. Nouveau système des Blattaires. Vienna : G. Braumüller 426 pp. 13 pls. [213].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NHMW ♂ adult, Sydney (as Sidney), NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) NHMW ♂ 2♀ adults.

  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 [1152].
• Periplaneta sexguttata Walker, F. 1868. Catalogue of the Specimens of Blattariae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) 239 pp. [141].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♂ adult, Australia.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♂ adult 1 nymph.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Princis, K. 1957. Revision der Walker'schen und Kirby'schen Blattarientypen im British Museum of Natural History, London. Opuscula Entomologica. Lund 22: 87-96, 97-116 [104] (Walker lists 3 specimens; Princis lists 2 as lectotype and paralectotype and erroneously excludes the third specimen, a nymph, from the type series); 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 [1152] (lists 2 nymphs as lectotype and paralectotype possibly due to misreading the previous reference).
• Polyzosteria tarsalis Walker, F. 1868. Catalogue of the Specimens of Blattariae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) 239 pp. [162].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀ adult, NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♀ adult.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Princis, K. 1957. Revision der Walker'schen und Kirby'schen Blattarientypen im British Museum of Natural History, London. Opuscula Entomologica. Lund 22: 87-96, 97-116 [103].

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 [1152]

Generic Combinations

• Platyzosteria scabra (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865). —
  Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 25-126 [published June] [88]
• Cosmozosteria sexguttata (Walker, 1868). —
  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. [133]
• Platyzosteria sexguttata (Walker, 1868). —
  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 [287]
• Drymaplaneta sexguttata (Walker, 1868). —
  Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 25-126 [published June] [113]
• Platyzosteria tarsalis (Walker, 1868). —
  Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 25-126 [published June] [95]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Under bark.

Extra Ecological Information

Record from under stones.

General References

Princis, K. 1957. Revision der Walker'schen und Kirby'schen Blattarientypen im British Museum of Natural History, London. Opuscula Entomologica. Lund 22: 87-96, 97-116 [103] (Polyzosteria tarsalis listed as synonym of Platyzosteria scabra)

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 [357] (new record)

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