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Blattodea Species File
Species

Holocompsa azteca Saussure, 1862

aztec hairy cockroach
Holocompsa azteca Saussure, 1862: Copyright Natural History Museum, London. Holotype (adult male) of synonym Euthyrrapha mordelloides Walker, 1868 in BM(NH). Dorsal view. (Otu).
Holocompsa azteca Saussure, 1862: Copyright Natural History Museum, London. Holotype (adult male) of synonym Euthyrrapha mordelloides Walker, 1868 in BM(NH). Dorsal view. (Otu).
Holocompsa azteca Saussure, 1862: Copyright Natural History Museum, London. Holotype (adult male) of synonym Euthyrrapha mordelloides Walker, 1868 in BM(NH). Ventral view. (Otu).
Holocompsa azteca Saussure, 1862: Copyright Natural History Museum, London. Labels from holotype (adult male) of synonym Euthyrrapha mordelloides Walker, 1868 in BM(NH). (Otu).
Holocompsa azteca Saussure, 1862: Copyright Natural History Museum, London. Labels from holotype (adult male) of synonym Euthyrrapha mordelloides Walker, 1868 in BM(NH). Underside. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1573133; c7875c40-4468-4361-8429-b89484b007d6: Copyright Natural History Museum, London. Non-type (adult female) in BM(NH). Dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1573133; c7875c40-4468-4361-8429-b89484b007d6: Copyright Natural History Museum, London. Non-type (adult female) in BM(NH). Ventral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1573133; c7875c40-4468-4361-8429-b89484b007d6: Copyright Natural History Museum, London. Labels from non-type (adult female) in BM(NH). (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (5)

  • Holocompsa azteca Saussure, 1862: 230.
  • Euthyrrapha [sic] mordelloides Walker, 1868: 59.
  • Holocompsa azteca Saussure, 1862 in Princis, 1963: 95.
  • Holocompsa azteca Saussure, 1862 in Bohn, 2024: 47.

Nomenclature references (4)

  • Saussure, H.L.F.de (1862) Orthoptera nova Americana (Diagnoses praeliminares) (Series III). Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquée, 14, 163–171, 227–234.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Bohn, H. (2024) The spine armament of the legs as an important means for the characterisation of the genera of Corydiinae and their relationships (Blattodea, Corydiidae). Zootaxa, 5482(1), 1–79. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5482.1.1

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Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
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Species1012
Gender, form, and etymology
Etymology:

After Aztec empire, which controlled parts of Mesoamerican from 1428 to 1521.