Species Robshelfordia longiuscula (Walker, 1869)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Blatta longiuscula 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. [143].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM ♂ adult, Australia.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, 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), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Ecological Descriptors

Litter.

Extra Ecological Information

Male winged, female wings reduced, record from pitfall traps.

General 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 [578] (redescription)

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] (incorrectly synonymised with Ischnoptera obscura Tepper, 1893 as one of Tepper's type specimens is actually a Robshelfordia longiuscula)

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