Species Robshelfordia circumducta (Walker, 1869)

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• Blatta circumducta Walker, F. 1869. Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria and Supplement to the Blattariae in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. London : British Museum (Natural History) 224 pp. [142].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM ♂ adult, Australia.
• Loboptera circumcincta Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 25-126 [published June] [37].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA 2♂ 2♀ adults (Tepper listed 2♂ 2♀ syntypes from Kangaroo Is., Riverton and Mount Bryan East; Roth, L.M. 1991. The cockroach genera Beybienkoa, gen. nov., Escala Shelford, Eowilsonia, gen. nov., Hensaussurea Princis, Parasigmoidella Hanitsch and Robshelfordia Princis. Invertebrate Taxonomy 5: 553–716 (557) indicates specimens are female and invalidly (ICZN 1985 Art. 74 a(v)) designated lectotype and paralectotypes from 3♀ labelled Gilbert River and Kangarilla), Kangaroo Is., Riverton and Mount Bryan East, SA.
• Ischnoptera annulata Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 25-126 [published June] [51].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA ♂ adult, Mt Lofty Ranges, SA.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA ♂ adult.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Roth, L.M. 1991. The cockroach genera Beybienkoa, gen. nov., Escala Shelford, Eowilsonia, gen. nov., Hensaussurea Princis, Parasigmoidella Hanitsch and Robshelfordia Princis. Invertebrate Taxonomy 5: 553-716 [557] (Tepper listed 2 adults from Mt Lofty Range and Kangarilla; Roth indicates specimens are actually ).
• Ischnoptera obscura Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 25-126 [published June] [54].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA ♂ adult, Lillimur, SA.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA 2♂ adults.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Roth, L.M. 1991. The cockroach genera Beybienkoa, gen. nov., Escala Shelford, Eowilsonia, gen. nov., Hensaussurea Princis, Parasigmoidella Hanitsch and Robshelfordia Princis. Invertebrate Taxonomy 5: 553-716 [557] (Tepper listed 3 syntypes from Norwood, Kangaroo Is., and Lillimur; Roth indicates two specimens in the syntype series are not and (p. 581) indicates the third of Tepper's types is actually a Robshelfordia longiuscula); Roach, A.M.E. in Roach, A.M.E. & Rentz, D.C.F. 1998. Blattodea. 21-162, 400 (App. III), 407-426 in Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 23 xiii 464 pp. [139] (interprets Roth's incorrect inference of holotype as lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Roth, L.M. 1991. The cockroach genera Beybienkoa, gen. nov., Escala Shelford, Eowilsonia, gen. nov., Hensaussurea Princis, Parasigmoidella Hanitsch and Robshelfordia Princis. Invertebrate Taxonomy 5: 553-716 [557]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, under bark.

Extra Ecological Information

Male winged, female wings reduced, under bark of Eucalyptus largiflorens [Myrtaceae] and dry sclerophyll forest.

General References

Dahms, E. 1972. Type-specimens of cockroaches (Blattodea) in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16: 273-289 [281] (invalidly labelled specimens of Ischnoptera obscura)

Roth, L.M. 1991. The cockroach genera Beybienkoa, gen. nov., Escala Shelford, Eowilsonia, gen. nov., Hensaussurea Princis, Parasigmoidella Hanitsch and Robshelfordia Princis. Invertebrate Taxonomy 5: 553-716 [557] (redescription)

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 [338] (new records from ACT and NSW)

Shaw, A.E. 1925. New genera and species (mostly Australasian) of Blattidae, with notes and some remarks on Tepper's types. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 50: 171-213 [173] (Loboptera circumcincta synonymised with Blatta circumducta, Ischnoptera annulata synonymised with Blatta circumducta, Ischnoptera erroneously synonymised with Blatta longiuscula Walker, 1869)

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