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Byrsotria fumigata (Guérin-Méneville, 1857)

Cuban burrowing cockroach
Byrsotria fumigata (Guérin-Méneville, 1857): Copyright Josef Dvorák. Byrsotria fumigata. (Otu).
Byrsotria fumigata (Guérin-Méneville, 1857): Copyright Josef Dvorák. Byrsotria fumigata. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1588608; de44eb25-2451-4027-8746-a260b09baffa: Photo by Heidi Hopkins. ANSP: Blabera fumigata. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1588608; de44eb25-2451-4027-8746-a260b09baffa: Photo by Heidi Hopkins. ANSP: Blabera fumigata. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1588608; de44eb25-2451-4027-8746-a260b09baffa: Photo by Heidi Hopkins. ANSP: Blabera fumigata. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1588612; 1f6e2675-18bc-479b-ae0a-8b6bc7e40ef2: Photo by Heidi Hopkins. ANSP: Blatta thunbergii. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1588612; 1f6e2675-18bc-479b-ae0a-8b6bc7e40ef2: Photo by Heidi Hopkins. ANSP: Blatta thunbergii. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1588612; 1f6e2675-18bc-479b-ae0a-8b6bc7e40ef2: Photo by Heidi Hopkins. ANSP: Blatta thunbergii. (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (10)

  • Blatta (Blabera [sic]) fumigata Guérin-Méneville, 1857 in Ramon de la Sagra, 1857: 335.

    Holotype; male; de44eb25-2451-4027-8746-a260b09baffa; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); Cuba

  • Blatta (Monachoda) thunbergii [sic] Guérin-Méneville, 1857 in Ramon de la Sagra, 1857: 335.

    Holotype; unknown; 1f6e2675-18bc-479b-ae0a-8b6bc7e40ef2; deposited at: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP); Cuba

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  • Byrsotria fumigata (Guérin-Méneville, 1857) in Princis, 1963: 136.
  • Byrsotria thunbergii [sic] minor Saussure & Zehntner, 1893 (subjective synonym of Blatta (Blabera [sic]) fumigata Guérin-Méneville, 1857) in Hollier, Marshall & Legendre, 2025: 71. Classification

Nomenclature references (5)

  • de la Sagra, R. (1857) Histoire physique, politique et naturelle de l'ile de Cuba. Partie Descriptive. Insectes. A. Bertrand (Ed.). Libraire de la Societe de Geographie et de la Societe Royale des Antiquaires du Nord, Paris, 1–868 pp.
  • Hollier, J., Marshall, J.A. & Legendre, F. (2025) An annotated list of the Blattodea (Insecta) described by Henri de Saussure. Part 4: the Blaberidae subfamilies Blaberinae, Geoscapheinae and Panesthiinae. Revue suisse de Zoologie, 132(1), 65–77. https://doi.org/10.35929/rsz.0140
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  • Princis, K. (1963) Blattariae: Suborde [sic] Polyphagoidea: Fam.: Homoeogamiidae, Euthyrrhaphidae, Latindiidae, Anacompsidae, Atticolidae, Attaphilidae. Subordo Blaberoidea: Fam. Blaberidae. In M. Beier (Ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. Pars 4. W. Junk, s'Gravenhage [The Hague]. pp. 76–172.
  • Saussure, H.de (1864) Memoires pour servir a l'histoire naturelle du Mexique, dos Antilles, et des Etats-Unis. Orthoptères de l'Amerique moyenne. Famille des Blattides. Ramboz et Schuchardt, Geneve, 279 pp.
  • Saussure, H.de, Zehntner, L. & Pictet, A. (1893) Insecta–Orthoptera. Vol. I. Suborder Orthoptera genuina. Fam. Blattidae. Biologia Centrali-Americana, 1, 13–123. [Date of publication given as 1893-1899]

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