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Species

Eupolyphaga sinensis (Walker, 1868)

Chinese medicinal cockroach; turtle cockroach
Eupolyphaga sinensis (Walker, 1868): Copyright NHM, London. Male: dorsal view, non-type. (Otu).
Eupolyphaga sinensis (Walker, 1868): Copyright NHM, London. Male: dorsal view, non-type. (Otu).
Eupolyphaga sinensis (Walker, 1868): Copyright NHM, London. Male: ventral view, non-type. (Otu).
Eupolyphaga sinensis (Walker, 1868): Copyright NHM, London. Male: data labels, non-type. (Otu).
Eupolyphaga sinensis (Walker, 1868): (Otu).
Eupolyphaga sinensis (Walker, 1868): (Otu).
Eupolyphaga sinensis (Walker, 1868): (Otu).
Eupolyphaga sinensis (Walker, 1868): (Otu).
Eupolyphaga sinensis (Walker, 1868): (Otu).
Eupolyphaga sinensis (Walker, 1868): (Otu).
Eupolyphaga sinensis (Walker, 1868): (Otu).
Eupolyphaga sinensis (Walker, 1868): (Otu).
CollectionObject 1552854; NHMUK(SF IMPORT DUPLICATE) BMNH(E) 876173, 1e184154-66b2-400b-b8bb-50052625b578: Copyright NHM, London. Holotype female of synonym Polyphaga sinensis, dorsal view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1552854; NHMUK(SF IMPORT DUPLICATE) BMNH(E) 876173, 1e184154-66b2-400b-b8bb-50052625b578: Copyright NHM, London. Holotype female of synonym Polyphaga sinensis, ventral view. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1552854; NHMUK(SF IMPORT DUPLICATE) BMNH(E) 876173, 1e184154-66b2-400b-b8bb-50052625b578: Copyright NHM, London. Holotype female of synonym Polyphaga sinensis, data labels. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1552854; NHMUK(SF IMPORT DUPLICATE) BMNH(E) 876173, 1e184154-66b2-400b-b8bb-50052625b578: Copyright Natural History Museum, London. Holotype female of synonym Polyphaga sinensis, data labels, underside. (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (18)

  • Polyphaga sinensis Walker, 1868: 14.

    Holotype; female; NHMUK(SF IMPORT DUPLICATE) BMNH(E) 876173; deposited at: Natural History Museum, London (NHMUK); China: North

  • Homoeogamia sinensis Saussure, 1869: 282.
  • Eupolyphaga sinensis (Walker, 1868) in Qiu, Che & Wang, 2018: 10.
  • Eupolyphaga sinensis (Walker, 1868) in Han, Che, Zhang & Wang, 2024: 163.

Nomenclature references (14)

  • 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.
  • Saussure, H.L.F.de (1869) Mélanges orthoptérologiques. Memoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve, 20(Part 2), 227–328 + 2 pls.
  • Dohrn, H. (1888) Neue und wenig bekannte Blattiden. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung, 49, 129–132.
  • Saussure, H.L.F.de (1893) Revision de la tribu des Heterogamiens. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 1, 289–318.
  • Kirby, W.F. (1903) Notes on Blattidae &c., with descriptions of new genera and species in the collection of the British Museum, South Kensington. No. III. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 12, 373–381.
  • Chopard, L. (1922) Les Polyphaga du groupe du sinensis Walk. [Orth. Blattidae]. Bull. Soc. Ent. France, 194–196.
  • Chopard, L. (1929) Orthoptera Palaearctica critica. VII. Les polyphagiens de la faune Paléarctique (Orth., Blatt.). Eos, Revista Española de Entomología, 5, 223–358.
  • Wu, C.F. (1935) Catalogus Insectorum Sinensium. Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, Peiping, China, Vol. 1, iv+ 378 pp.
  • Bey-Bienko, G.Y. (1950) Cockroaches. Fauna SSSR (N. S.), 40, 342 pp. [in Russian]
  • Princis, K. (1962) Blattariae: Suborde Polyphagoidea: Fam. Polyphagidae. In M. Beier (Ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. Pars 3. W. Junk, ’s-Gravenhage [The Hague]. pp. 3–74.
  • Woo, F.-C. (1987) Investigations on domiciliary cockroaches from China. Acta Entomologica Sinica, 30(4), 430–438. [in Chinese]
  • Feng, P.Z., Guo, Y. & Woo, F.-C. (1997) Cockroaches of China, Species and Control. China Science & Technology Press, 206 pp. [in Chinese]
  • Qiu, L., Che, Y.-L. & Wang, Z.-Q. (2018) A taxonomic study of Eupolyphaga Chopard, 1929 (Blattodea: Corydiidae: Corydiinae). Zootaxa, 4506(1), 1–68. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4506.1.1
  • Han, W., Che, Y.-L., Zhang, P.-J. & Wang, Z.-Q. (2024) New species of Eupolyphaga Chopard, 1929 and Pseudoeupolyphaga Qiu & Che, 2024 (Blattodea, Corydioidea, Corydiinae), with notes on their female genitalia. ZooKeys, 1211, 151–191. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1211.128805

Other references (0)

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Species1045
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Etymology:

Latin: from China.