Species Shelfordina orchidae (Asahina, 1985)

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• Imblattella orchidae Asahina, S. 1985. Taxonomic notes on Japanese Blattaria, XV. A revision of three Blattellid species. Chô Chô 8(5): 1-10 [4].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown ♂ adult, Takadanobaba, Tokyo, Japan.
  Paratype(s) ANIC ♂ adult; whereabouts unknown 8♂ 4♀ adults.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld: 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), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, under bark, volant.

Extra Ecological Information

Records from orchids and other tropical plants in glasshouses where it lives amongst roots and potting media and feeds on fungal hyphae, spores and pollen from ferns, mosses, palms and orchids.

General References

Lepschi, B.J. 1989. A preliminary note on the food of Imblattella orchidae Asahina (Blattodea: Blattellidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 16: 41-42

Rentz, D.C.F. 1987. Imblattella orchidae Ashina, an introduced cockroach associated with orchids in Australia (Blattodea: Blattellidae). Australian Entomological Society News Bulletin 23: 44-45

Rentz, D.C.F. 1987. Imblattella panamae (Hebard) a Panamanian cockroach associated with orchids in Australia (Blattodea: Blattellidae). Bulletin of the Orchid Society of Canberra 2: 3-4 (misidentified as Imblattella panamae Hebard, 1920)

Rentz, D.C.F. 1987. Danger in your orchid house. Imblattella orchidae Asahina an introduced cockroach associated with orchids in Australia (Blattodea: Blattellidae). Australian Orchid Review Spring: 14-15

Roth, L.M. 1990. Revisionary studies on Blattellidae (Blattaria) from the Indo-Australian region. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28: 597-663 [617] (redescription)

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