Species Zonioploca medilinea (Tepper, 1893)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Knephasia medilinea Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 25-126 [published June] [100].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA ♂ adult, Lillimur, VIC.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA 4♀ adults.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Mackerras, M.J. 1965. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). III. Revision of the genera Zonioploca Stål and Eppertia Shaw. Australian Journal of Zoology 13: 903-927 [914] (all of Tepper's original series as paralectotypes not included, contrary to Art. 74, ICZN 1985).

Generic Combinations

• Zonioploca medilinea (Tepper, 1893). —
  Shelford, R.W.C. 1909. Blattidae. pp. 129-142 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : G. Fischer Vol. 2(9). [138]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Vic, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Ground dweller.

Extra Ecological Information

Epigean, recorded from cave.

General References

Mackerras, M.J. 1965. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). III. Revision of the genera Zonioploca Stål and Eppertia Shaw. Australian Journal of Zoology 13: 903-927 [914] (redescription, genitalia description)

Richards, A.M. 1967. Cockroaches (Blattodea) from Australian Caves. Helictite, Journal of Australasian Cave Research 5(2): 35-44 [39]

Richards, A.M. 1971. An ecological study of the cavernicolous fauna of the Nullarbor Plain Southern Australia. Journal of Zoology, London 164: 1-60

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 [359] (new record)

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