Species Tryonicus mackerrasae Roth, 1987

Museums

Regional Maps

• Tryonicus mackerrasae 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 [155] [same as n. sp. A and B mentioned by Mackerras, M.J. 1968. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). IX. Revision of Polyzosteriinae tribe Methanini, Tryonicinae, and Blattinae. Australian Journal of Zoology 16: 511–575 (561)].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM T.9526 ♂ adult, Kirama State Forest, via Cardwell, QLD.
  Paratype(s) 5♂ 7♀ adults; MCZ ♂ ♀ adults; QM 10♂ 3♀ adults; ANIC 2♀ adults.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

From the Kirrama Range north to Cape Tribulation.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Rotting wood.

Extra Ecological Information

Flightless, wings reduced, found on forest floor under stones and pieces of wood in wet rainforest, never found under bark or above ground.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
03-Jan-2012		03-Jan-2012	MOVED
03-Jan-2012		03-Jan-2012	MOVED
04-Jan-2012		04-Mar-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)