Species Choristima galerucoides (Walker, 1868)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Diploptera galerucoides Walker, F. 1868. Catalogue of the Specimens of Blattariae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) 239 pp. [57].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀ adult, TAS.
• Blatta apicifera Walker, F. 1868. Catalogue of the Specimens of Blattariae in the Collection of the British Museum. London : British Museum (Natural History) 239 pp. [110].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂ adult (described by Walker as female; Roth, L.M. 1992. The Australian cockroach genus Choristima Tepper (Blattaria, Blattellidae: Ectobiinae). Entomologica Scandinavica 23: 121–151 [125] says specimen is male and abdomen is now missing), Australia.
• Chorisoneura loftyensis Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 25-126 [published June] [115].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA ♂ ♀ adults nymphs (nymphs unknown number and sex), Mount Lofty Ranges, SA.
• Choristima kershawi 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 [165].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NMV ♀ adult, Bunyip, VIC.
  Paralectotype(s) NMV ♀ adult 1 nymph.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Roth, L.M. 1992. The Australian cockroach genus Choristima Tepper (Blattaria, Blattellidae: Ectobiinae). Entomologica Scandinavica 23: 121-151 [125] (Tepper listed adults and one nymph from near Melbourne and Bunyip; the labelled 'Type, selected by Tepper 14.iii.1895' is actually a ).
• Aphlebidea brunneri Brancsik, C. 1897. Series Orthopterorum novorum. Jahresheft Naturwissenscheftlichen Vereins des Trencsiner Comitat 19-20: 52-85, tabs i-ii [dated 1897] [56].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) OUM ? 4 adults, VIC.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Shelford, R.W.C. 1907. On some new species of Blattidae in the Oxford and Paris Museums. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 19(7): 25-49 [43] (for C. kershawi and C. apicifera)
• Hebard, M. 1943. Australian Blattidae of the subfamilies Chorisoneurinae and Ectobiinae (Orthoptera). Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 4: 1-129 [35] (Chorisoneura loftyensis and Choristima brunneri synonymised under Choristima galerucoides)

Generic Combinations

• Ellipsidion apicifera (Walker, 1868). —
  Kirby, W.F. 1904. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera. Orthoptera, Euplexoptera, Cursoria, et Gressoria (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae). London : Longmans & Co. Vol. 1 x 501 pp. [73, 80]
• Choristima brunneri (Brancsik, 1897). —
  Shelford, R.W.C. 1907. On some new species of Blattidae in the Oxford and Paris Museums. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 19(7): 25-49 [43]
• Eleutheroda galerucoides (Walker, 1868). —
  Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 25-126 [published June] [116]
• Choristima galerucoides (Walker, 1868). —
  Kirby, W.F. 1904. A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera. Orthoptera, Euplexoptera, Cursoria, et Gressoria (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae). London : Longmans & Co. Vol. 1 x 501 pp. [73, 80]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), 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), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, under bark.

Extra Ecological Information

Male winged, female wings reduced, recorded on Eucalyptus [Myrtaceae] and under bark of E. amplifolia, light trap and trough trap.

General References

Shelford, R.W.C. 1907. On some new species of Blattidae in the Oxford and Paris Museums. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 19(7): 25-49 [43] (Choristima kershawi and Choristima apicifera synonymised under Choristima galerucoides)

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