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Blattodea Species File
Species

Perisphaerus pygmaeus Karny, 1915

Perisphaerus pygmaeus Karny, 1915: (Otu).
Perisphaerus pygmaeus Karny, 1915: (Otu).

Nomenclature (8)

  • Perispherus [sic] pygmaea Karny, 1915: 92.
  • Perispherus [sic] pygmaea Karny, 1915 in Shiraki, 1932: 2041.
  • Perisphaerus pygmaeus Karny, 1915 in Li, Wang & Wang, 2018: 255.
  • Perisphaerus pygmaeus Karny, 1915 in Hsu, Yanagisawa, Ohgita, Hiruta, Huang & Yeh, 2025: 187.

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Karny, H.H. (1915) H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute, Orthoptera et Oothecaria. Supplementa Entomologica, 4, 56–108. Available at http://sdei.senckenberg.de/~openaccess/01469.pdf
  • Shiraki, T. (1932) Iconographia Insectorum Japonicorum (Nippon Konchu Zukan; Edito Prima). Hokuryukan, Tokyo, 2241 pp.
  • 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.
  • Asahina, S. (1977) Blattaria or cockroaches of Amamioshima. In Animals of medical importance in the Nansei Islands of Japan. Shinjuku-Shobo, Tokyo. 99–105 pp.
  • Asahina, S. (1988) Taxonomic notes on Japanese Blattaria XVI. Notes on two Trichoblatta species. Japanese Journal of Sanitary Zoology, 39(1), 35–41. [in Japanese]
  • Asahina, S. (1991) Blattaria of Japan. Nakayama-Shoten, Tokyo, 253 pp.
  • Li, X.-R., Wang, L.-L. & Wang, Z.-Q. (2018) Rediscovered and new perisphaerine cockroaches from SW China with a review of subfamilial diagnosis (Blattodea: Blaberidae). Zootaxa, 4410(2), 251–290.
  • Hsu, C.-T., Yanagisawa, S., Ohgita, S., Hiruta, S.F., Huang, C.-Y. & Yeh, W. (2025) A New Species of the Genus Perisphaerus Audinet-Serville, 1831 (Blattodea: Blaberidae) from Japan and Taiwan, and Redescription of the Female of Perisphaerus pygmaeus Karny, 1915. Japanese Journal of Systematic Entomology, 31(1), 185–197.

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Etymology:

Latin: dwarf.