Species Polyzosteria limbata Burmeister, 1838
- Polyzosteria limbata Burmeister, H. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie. Berlin : T.C.F. Enslin Vol. 2(2) 1050 pp. [483] [lists
specimens]. Type data:
Lectotype ZMB ♀ adult, Australia (as Newholland).
Paralectotype(s) ZMB ♂ adult.Subsequent designation references:
Mackerras, M.J. 1965. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). I. General remarks and revision of the genus Polyzosteria Burmeister. Australian Journal of Zoology 13: 841-882 [852] (mentions 'type'but not specimen); 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. [79] (interprets Mackarras's incorrect inference of type as lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)). - Polyzosteria purpurascens Fischer, J.E. 1853. Orthoptera Europaea. Lipsiae : Engelmann xx 454 pp., 18 pls. [93] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Polyzosteria limbata].
Type data:
Syntype(s). - Polyzosteria pulchella Saussure, H. de 1864. Blattarum novarum species aliquot. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 2 16: 305-326 [308].
Type data:
Holotype GMNH ♂ nymph (Mackerras, M.J. 1965. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). I. General remarks and revision of the genus Polyzosteria Burmeister. Australian Journal of Zoology 13: 841–882 [853] reported holotype missing), Australia (as Nova Hollandia). - Polyzosteria nitens Walker, F. 1868. Catalogue of the Specimens of Blattariae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) 239 pp. [155].
Type data:
Lectotype BMNH ♀ adult, locality unknown.
Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♀ adult.Subsequent designation references:
Princis, K. 1957. Revision der Walker'schen und Kirby'schen Blattarientypen im British Museum of Natural History, London. Opuscula Entomologica. Lund 22: 87-96, 97-116 [104]. - Polyzosteria frenchii 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 [178].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA ♂ adult, VIC.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Mackerras, M.J. 1965. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). I. General remarks and revision of the genus Polyzosteria Burmeister. Australian Journal of Zoology 13: 841-882 [852]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Majority of published records coastal.
IBRA
NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)
Ecological Descriptors
Diurnal.
Extra Ecological Information
Ground dwellers which frequently climb on shrubs for basking and foraging, oothecae dropped or buried in sand, eggs hatch after 45–65 days, nymphs mature after about nine months and approximately eight moults, when disturbed adults discharge their sternal scent glands.
General References
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 [355] (new records)
Saussure, H. de 1869. Mélanges orthoptérologiques. IIme fascicule Blattides et Phasmides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 20: 227-326 [256] (P. pulchella as synonym of P. limbata)
Shelford, R.W.C. 1909. Studies of the Blattidae. X. A revision of the old-world Blattinae belonging to the Polyzosteria group. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1909(2): 253-327 [258] (P. nitens as synonym of P. limbata, P. frenchii as possible synonym of P. limbata)
History of changes
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