genus
Crescispina Luo & Wang, 2025
Type
Periplaneta japonica Karny, 1908 type species by original designation of Crescispina Luo & Wang, 2025
Nomenclature (1)
- Crescispina Luo & Wang, 2025 in Luo, Deng, Han, Lo, Cai, Che & Wang, 2025: 11.
type species by original designation Periplaneta japonica Karny, 1908
Nomenclature references (1)
- Luo, X., Deng, W., Han, W., Lo, N., Cai, J.-Z., Che, Y.-L. & Wang, Z.-Q. (2025) Revision of the cockroach subfamily Blattinae based on morphological and molecular analyses. Systematic Entomology. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12680
Descendants and synonyms
Stats
| Valid names | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Extant | Fossil | Invalid | Total | |
| genus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| species | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | |
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:
The generic epithet is from the Latin word ‘cresc-’ and ‘Spina’ meaning the basal part of L4C (male genital sclerite) with spines.