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Melyroidea magnifica Shelford, 1912

Melyroidea magnifica Shelford, 1912: Copyright UMO, Oxford. Type, dorsal view. (Otu).
Melyroidea magnifica Shelford, 1912: Copyright UMO, Oxford. Type, dorsal view. (Otu).
Melyroidea magnifica Shelford, 1912: Copyright Thierry Garcia. Probably Melyroidea magnifica. Photographed in Bigal River Biological Reserve, near Sumaco National Park, North Eastern Ecuador (see http://reservadelriobigal.googlepages.com). All 3 specimens found came from clumps of bamboo, *Guadua angustifolia*. (Otu).

Nomenclature (2)

  • Melyroidea magnifica Shelford, 1912: 375.
  • Melyroidea magnifica Shelford, 1912 in Princis, 1965: 357.

Nomenclature references (2)

  • 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.
  • Shelford, R.W.C. (1912) Mimicry amongst the Blattidae; with a revision of the genus Prosoplecta Sauss., and the description of a new genus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 82, 358–376.

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