Species Polyzosteria obscuroviridis Tepper, 1893

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• Polyzosteria obscuroviridis Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 25-126 [published June] [73, top of page].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♀ adult, Gawler Range, SA.
• Polyzosteria iridicolor Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 25-126 [published June] [73, bottom of page].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM ♀ adult (Mackerras, M.J. 1965. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). I. General remarks and revision of the genus Polyzosteria Burmeister. Australian Journal of Zoology 13: 841–882 (864) specimen from SAMA labelled 'cotype' from Beltana, SA is a locality not mentioned in original reference so it is not from original series), Gawler Range, SA.
• Polyzosteria bagoti Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 25-126 [published June] [79].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA ♂ nymph, Port Augusta, SA.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA ♂ nymph.

  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 [864]; 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. [80] (interprets Mackarras's incorrect inference of type as lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).

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 [864]

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA: Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP)

Ecological Descriptors

Diurnal, ground dweller.

General References

Dahms, E. 1972. Type-specimens of cockroaches (Blattodea) in the Queensland Museum. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16: 273-289 [285] (QM type information)

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 [157] (P. iridicolor incorrect subsequent spelling as P. viridicolor)

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