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Elliptorhina laevigata (Saussure & Zehntner, 1895)

v-horn hissing cockroach
Elliptorhina laevigata (Saussure & Zehntner, 1895): Adult male from Belalanda, north of Tulear, Toliara Province. 2008. Copyright Olaf Pronk. (Otu).
Elliptorhina laevigata (Saussure & Zehntner, 1895): Adult male from Belalanda, north of Tulear, Toliara Province. 2008. Copyright Olaf Pronk. (Otu).
Elliptorhina laevigata (Saussure & Zehntner, 1895): Adult male from Belalanda, north of Tulear, Toliara Province. 2008. Copyright Olaf Pronk. (Otu).
Elliptorhina laevigata (Saussure & Zehntner, 1895): Adult male from Belalanda, north of Tulear, Toliara Province. 2008. Copyright Olaf Pronk. (Otu).
Elliptorhina laevigata (Saussure & Zehntner, 1895): Adult male from Belalanda, north of Tulear, Toliara Province. 2008. Copyright Olaf Pronk. (Otu).
Elliptorhina laevigata (Saussure & Zehntner, 1895): Copyright Natural History Museum, London. Adult male, dorsal. (Otu).
Elliptorhina laevigata (Saussure & Zehntner, 1895): Copyright Natural History Museum, London. Adult male, vental. (Otu).
Elliptorhina laevigata (Saussure & Zehntner, 1895): Copyright Natural History Museum, London. Data labels from adult male. (Otu).

Nomenclature (4)

  • Gromphadorhina portentosa laevigata Saussure & Zehntner, 1895: 147.
  • Gromphadorhina laevigata Saussure & Zehntner, 1895 in Chopard, 1950: 218-222.
  • Gromphadorhina laevigata Saussure & Zehntner, 1895 in Princis, 1965: 307.
  • Elliptorhina laevigata (Saussure & Zehntner, 1895) in van Herrewege, 1973: 77.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Chopard, L. (1950) Sur l'anatomie et le developpment d'une blatte vivipare. Proceedings 8th Int Congr Ent Stockholm 1948, 218–222.
  • Princis, K. (1965) Blattariae: Subordo Blaberoidea: Fam.: Oxyhaloidae, Panesthiidae, Cryptocercidae, Chorisoneuridae, Oulopterygidae, Diplopteridae, Anaplectidae, Archiblattidae, Nothoblattidae. In M. Beier (Ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. Pars 7. W. Junk, s'Gravenhage [The Hague]. pp. 284–400.
  • Saussure, H.de & Zehntner, L. (1895) Histoire naturelle des blattides et mantides. In Grandidier (Ed.). Histoire Physique Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar. Vol. 23, Issue 1, 1–244 pp.
  • Van Herrewege, C. (1973) Contribution a l'etude des Blattaria de la faune Malgache. II. Description de huit especes nouvelles appartenant aux generes Gromphadorhina Brunner v.W. et Elliptorhina gen. nov. Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon, 42nd année, Numéro spécial du 150th anniversaire, Décember 1973, 75–103.

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