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Aptera fusca (Thunberg, 1784)

Cape mountain cockroach
Aptera fusca (Thunberg, 1784): Copyright Natural History Museum, London. Non-type (adult male) in BM(NH). Dorsal view. (Otu).
Aptera fusca (Thunberg, 1784): Copyright Natural History Museum, London. Non-type (adult male) in BM(NH). Dorsal view. (Otu).
Aptera fusca (Thunberg, 1784): Copyright Natural History Museum, London. Non-type (adult male) in BM(NH). Ventral view. (Otu).
Aptera fusca (Thunberg, 1784): Copyright Natural History Museum, London. Labels from non-type (adult male) in BM(NH). (Otu).
Aptera fusca (Thunberg, 1784): Copyright Natural History Museum, London. Holotype (adult female) of synonym Perisphaeria crassa Walker, 1868 in BM(NH). Dorsal view. (Otu).
Aptera fusca (Thunberg, 1784): Copyright Natural History Museum, London. Holotype (adult female) of synonym Perisphaeria crassa Walker, 1868 in BM(NH). Ventral view. (Otu).
Aptera fusca (Thunberg, 1784): Copyright Natural History Museum, London. Labels from holotype (adult female) of synonym Perisphaeria crassa Walker, 1868 in BM(NH). (Otu).
Aptera fusca (Thunberg, 1784): Copyright Natural History Museum, London. Holotype (adult female) of synonym Perisphaeria multicincta Walker, 1868 in BM(NH). Dorsal view. (Otu).
Aptera fusca (Thunberg, 1784): Copyright Natural History Museum, London. Holotype (adult female) of synonym Perisphaeria multicincta Walker, 1868 in BM(NH). Ventral view. (Otu).
Aptera fusca (Thunberg, 1784): Copyright Natural History Museum, London. Labels from holotype (adult female) of synonym Perisphaeria multicincta Walker, 1868 in BM(NH). (Otu).
Aptera fusca (Thunberg, 1784): Copyright UMO, Oxford. Type of synonym Nauphoeta rubricosa, dorsal view. (Otu).

Nomenclature (14)

  • Blatta fusca Thunberg, 1784: 77.
  • Blatta aptera Zschach, 1788: 46.
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  • Perisphaeria [sic] multicincta Walker, 1868 (synonym of Blatta fusca Thunberg, 1784)
  • Aptera fusca (Thunberg, 1784) in Princis, 1964: 198.

Nomenclature references (6)

  • Burmeister, H.C.C. (1838) Kakerlaken, Schaben. Blattina. Handbuch der Entomologie, 2(2), 469–517.
  • Princis, K. (1964) Blattariae: Subordo Blaberoidea: Fam.: Panchloridae, Gynopeltididae, Derocalymmidae, Perisphaeriidae, Pycnoscelididae. In M. Beier (Ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. Pars 6. W. Junk, s'Gravenhage [The Hague]. pp. 174–281.
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  • Saussure, H.de (1864) Travaux Inédits. Blattarum novarum species aliquot. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée, 16(2), 305–326.
  • Thunberg, C.P. (1784) Dissert. entom. novas Ins. species sistens 4, Upsaliae.
  • Walker, F. (1868) Catalogue of the Specimens of Blattariae in the Collection of the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History), E. Newman, Printer, London, 239 pp.
  • Zschach (1788) Museum N. G. Leskeanum. Pars entomologica ad systema entomologiae Cl. Fabricii ordinata. I.G. Mülleriano, Leipzig, 136 pp. + 3 pls.

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