Species Platyzosteria pseudocastanea Tepper, 1893

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• Platyzosteria pseudocastanea Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 25-126 [published June] [89] [lists 2 adult and 2 nymphal specimens as type series].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA ♀ adult, 34º26´S 137º54´E, Ardrossan, SA.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA ♂ nymph; SAMA 2 nymphs; SAMA 2 nymphs.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Mackerras, M.J. 1967. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VII. The Platyzosteria group: general remarks and revision of the subgenera Platyzosteria Brunner and Leptozosteria Tepper. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 1207-1298 [1260] (states adult paralectotype is actually P. (P.) subaptera).

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Under bark.

Extra Ecological Information

Record from under stones.

General References

Mackerras, M.J. 1967. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VII. The Platyzosteria group: general remarks and revision of the subgenera Platyzosteria Brunner and Leptozosteria Tepper. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 1207-1298 [1260] (redescription, genitalia description)

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