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• Blatta australis Macleay, W.S. 1826. Annulosa. Catalogue of insects collected by Captain King, R.N. pp. 408-565 in King, P.P. (ed.). Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia. Performed between the years 1818 and 1822. London : John Murray Vol. 1 451 pp. [Date published 15 Apr 1826: imprint 1827] [454] [publication dated 1826; without access to further material it is not possible to place this name].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (Roth, L.M. 1994. New Queensland cockroaches of Macrocerca Hanitsch and Periplaneta Burmeister (Blattidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 35: 225–233 [232] mentions that type specimens are not in MMUS; Waterhouse, G.A. 1937. Presidential address: the biology and taxonomy of the Australian butterflies. Rep. Australas. N.Z. Ass. Adv. Sci. 23: 101–133 [104] (says Macleay types of Lepidoptera are lost or destroyed and many collection localities are doubtful this may also apply to specimens of other orders; Roach, A.M.E. in Roach, A.M.E. & Rentz, D.C.F. 1998. Blattodea. pp. 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 . [162] (specimens are not in ANIC))), locality unknown.
• Blatta lepida Walker, F. 1871. Catalogue of the Specimens of Dermaptera Saltatoria in the Collection of the British Museum. Part V. Supplement to the Catalogue of Blattariae. London : British Museum (Natural History) 40 pp. [28] [without access to further material it is not possible to place this name].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult, Australia.
• Blatta trivittata Erichson, W.F. 1842. Beitrag zur Insecten-fauna von Vandiemensland, mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der geographischen Verbreitung der Insecten. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 8(1): 83-287, pls 4, 5 [248] [without access to further material it is not possible to place this name].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMB (depository uncertain), TAS.
• Ectobia australica Godeffroy, J.C. & Son 1866. Catalog III der zum Verkauf stehenden Doubletten aus den Naturhistorischen Expedition der Herren J.C. Godeffroy & Sohn in Hamburg. Museum Godeffroy Catalog III: 17 (Hamburg) [17] [listed as nom. nud. by Princis, K. 1971. Pars 14: Blattariae: Subordo Epilamproidea, Fam. Ectobiidae. pp. 1041–1224 in Beier, M. (ed). Orthopterorum Catalogus. Gravenhage : Junk . (1133); without access to further material it is not possible to place this name].
• Epilampria tatei Tepper, J.G.O. 1894. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Supplementary and additional descriptions and notes. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 18: 165-189 [174] [Princis, K. 1964. Pars 6: Blattariae: Subordo Blaberoidea: Fam. Panchloridae, Gynopeltididae, Derocalymmidae, Perisphaeriidae, Pycnoscelididae. pp. 174–281 in Beier, M. (ed). Orthopterorum Catalogus. Gravenhage : Junk . (271) synonymised tatei under Blatta surinamensis Linnaeus, 1758; without access to further material it is not possible to place this name].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♀ adult, Yam Creek, SA (as Northern Territory of South Australia).
• Ischnoptera termitina Saussure, H. de 1863. Mélanges orthoptérologiques. Ier Fascicule, Blattides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 17: 129-170 [157] [without access to further material it is not possible to place this name].

  Type data:

   Holotype ? ♂ adult, Australia.

  Secondary source:

   Rentz, D.C.F. & Cameron, H.M. 1983. Catalogue of Australian Cockroaches. CSIRO Australia. Division of Entomology Technical Paper 21: 1-37 [27].
• Paraphoraspis castanea Tepper, J.G.O. 1894. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Supplementary and additional descriptions and notes. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 18: 165-189 [173] [as Paraphoraspis(?) castanea; synonymised under Periplaneta convexa Walker, 1869 by Princis, K. 1966. Pars 8: Blattariae: Blattoidea: Blattidae, Nocticolidae. pp. 402–614 in Beier, M. (ed). Orthopterorum Catalogus. Gravenhage : Junk . (599); without access to further material it is not possible to place this name].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♀ adult, Howbulan, VIC.
• Pellita australica Brancsik, C. 1896. Orthoptera quaedam nova africana et australica. Jahresheft Naturwissenscheftlichen Vereins des Trencsiner Comitat 17–18: 243-262 [245] [without access to further material it is not possible to place this name].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, York Town, SA.

  Secondary source:

   Princis, K. 1966. Pars 8: Blattariae: Blattoidea: Blattidae, Nocticolidae. pp. 402-614 in Beier, M. (ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. 's-Gravenhage : Dr. W. Junk. [565].
• Polyzosteria arenicola Alexander, W.B. 1917. List of orthopterous insects recorded from Western Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 2(1915–1916): 97-103 [99] [without access to further material it is not possible to place this name; Princis, K. 1971. Pars 14: Blattariae: Subordo Epilamproidea, Fam. Ectobiidae. pp. 1041–1224 in Beier, M. (ed). Orthopterorum Catalogus. Gravenhage : Junk . (1133) listed name as nom. nud.].

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