Species Cosmozosteria trifasciata (Tepper, 1893)

Museums

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• Platyzosteria trifasciata Tepper, J.G.O. 1893. The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 17: 25-126 [published June] [91].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA ♂ adult, NT.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA 3♂ ♀ adults; ANIC ♀ adult; QM & AM 3♂ 5♀ adults (Tepper listed 8♂ 7♀ in original series; Mackerras, M.J. 1967. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VI. Revision of the genus Cosmozosteria Stål. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 593–618 (613) did not include all of Tepper's original series as paralectotypes contrary to Art. 74, ICZN 1985, she did however state that specimens from the original series and labelled 'cotype' are in AM, ANIC and QM, but did not specify numbers in each museum); ANIC ♀ adult; QM 3♂ 5♀ (and AM; Tepper listed 8♂ 7♀ in original series; Mackerras, M.J. 1967. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VI. Revision of the genus Cosmozosteria Stål. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 593–618 [613] did not include all of Tepper's original series as paralectotypes contrary to Art. 74, ICZN 1985, she did however state that specimens from the original series and labelled 'cotype' are in AM, ANIC and QM, but did not specify numbers in each museum).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Mackerras, M.J. 1967. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VI. Revision of the genus Cosmozosteria Stål. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 593-618 [613].
• Platyzosteria alternans Hanitsch, R. 1934. On a collection of Blattids, chiefly from Java and Northern Australia, made by Professor Ed. Handschin. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 41: 111-130 [122].

  Type data:

   Holotype MHNB ♂ nymph, Z Lagoon, NT.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Mackerras, M.J. 1967. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VI. Revision of the genus Cosmozosteria Stål. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 593-618 [613]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: nocturnal.

Nymph: diurnal.

Extra Ecological Information

Record from in leaf axils of Pandanus spiralis [Pandanaceae], eggs hatch after approximately two months at 20 to 25ºC, nymphs reach maturity after about eight months.

General References

Mackerras, M.J. 1967. Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VI. Revision of the genus Cosmozosteria Stål. Australian Journal of Zoology 15: 593-618 [613] (redescription, genitalia description)

Princis, K. 1966. Pars 8: Blattariae: Blattoidea: Blattidae, Nocticolidae. pp. 402-614 in Beier, M. (ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. 's-Gravenhage : Dr. W. Junk. [595] (C. trifasciata synonymised under C. zonata (Walker, 1868))

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 [296] (C. trifasciata synonymised under C. zonata (Walker, 1868))

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