Species Tryonicus parvus (Tepper, 1895)

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• Periplaneta parva Tepper, J.G.O. 1895. Notes on Victorian and other Blattariae and descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 19: 146-166 [162] [listed 2 specimens].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA ♀ adult, Sydney, NSW.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA ♀ adult.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Mackerras, M.J. 1968. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). IX. Revision of Polyzosteriinae tribe Methanini, Tryonicinae, and Blattinae. Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 511-575 [557]; 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. [85] (interprets Mackarras's incorrect inference of holotype as lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).
• Tryonicus montanus 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 [202].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T2872 ♂ adult, Lamington Plateau (as Lamington Plateau, National Park), 3000 ft, QLD.
  Paratype(s) QM T2872 2♂ 7♀ adults; AM ♂ adult.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mackerras, M.J. 1968. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). IX. Revision of Polyzosteriinae tribe Methanini, Tryonicinae, and Blattinae. Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 511-575 [557]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Rotting wood.

Extra Ecological Information

Flightless, male wings reduced, female apterous, recorded from rotting logs in Nothofagus forest, found on forest floor under stones and pieces of wood in wet rainforest, never found under bark or above ground.

General References

Dahms, E. 1972. Type-specimens of cockroaches (Blattodea) in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16: 273-289 [286] (QM type information)

Roth, L.M. 1987. The genus Tryonicus Shaw from Australia and New Caledonia (Dictyoptera: Blattaria: Blattellidae: Tryonicinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 25: 151-167 [154] (additional localities and notes)

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