Genus Pseudobalta Roth, 1997

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• Pseudobalta Roth, L.M. 1997. Pseudobalta, a new Australian ovoviviparous cockroach genus (Dictyoptera, Blattaria, Blattellidae, Pseudophyllodromiinae). Australian Journal of Entomology 36: 101-108 [101].

  Type species:

   Balta pusilla Hebard, 1943 by original designation.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

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 [54] (transferred from previous position in subfamily Pseudophyllodromiinae in family Ectobiidae to reinstated Pseudophyllodromiidae based on molecular data)

Grandcolas, P. 1996. The phylogeny of cockroach families: a cladistic appraisal of morpho-anatomical data. Canadian Journal of Zoology 74: 508-527 (accords Pseudophyllodromiinae familial status)

Roth, L.M. 1997. Pseudobalta, a new Australian ovoviviparous cockroach genus (Dictyoptera, Blattaria, Blattellidae, Pseudophyllodromiinae). Australian Journal of Entomology 36: 101-108 [103] (key to species)

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