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genus

Melanozosteria Stål, 1874

Type

Polyzosteria (Platyzosteria) nitida Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865 type species by original monotypy of Melanozosteria Stål, 1874

Nomenclature (20)

  • Melanozosteria Stål, 1874: 13. (valid in Princis, 1966: 569)

    type species by original monotypy Polyzosteria (Platyzosteria) nitida Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865

  • Cutilia Stål, 1877: 36.

    type species by subsequent designation Cutilia tartarea Stål, 1877

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  • Periplaneta (Syntomaptera) Tepper, 1893 (subjective synonym of Melanozosteria Stål, 1874) in Liao, Wang & Che, 2019: 94.
  • Melanozosteria Stål, 1874 in Djernæs & Murienne, 2022: 223. Phylogeny

Nomenclature references (15)

  • Burmeister, H.C.C. (1838) Kakerlaken, Schaben. Blattina. Handbuch der Entomologie, 2(2), 469–517.
  • Djernæs, M. & Murienne, J. (2022) Phylogeny of Blattoidea (Dictyoptera: Blattodea) with a revised classification of Blattidae. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, 80, 209–228.
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  • Hanitsch, R. (1915) Malayan Blattidae. Journal of the Straits Branch Royal Asiatic Society, 69, 17–178.
  • Kirby, W.F. (1904) A Synonymic Catalogue of Orthoptera. Vol. I. Orthopter. Euplexoptera Cursoria, et Gressoria. Taylor & Francis, London, x + 501 pp.
  • Liao, S., Wang, Z.-Q. & Che, Y.-L. (2019) A new genus and a new species in the subfamily Polyzosteriinae (Blattodea, Blattidae) from China. ZooKeys, 852, 85–100. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.852.33325
  • Mackerras, M.J. (1968) Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VIII. The Platyzosteria group; subgenus Melanozosteria Stål. Australian Journal of Zoology, 16, 237–331.
  • Princis, K. (1949) The Blattaria described by Carl Peter Thunberg. Opuscula Entomologica, 14, 61–67.
  • Princis, K. (1966) Blattariae: Suborbo [sic] Blattoidea. Fam.: Blattidae, Nocticolidae. In Beier (Ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, s'Gravenhage. Issue 8, pp. 402–614.
  • Rentz, D. (2014) Guide to the Cockroaches of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, Canberra, 317 pp. https://doi.org/10.1071/9781486300372
  • Roth, L.M. (2003) Systematics and phylogeny of cockroaches (Dictyoptera: Blattaria). Oriental Insects, 37, 1–186.
  • Shelford, R.W.C. (1909) Studies of the Blattidae. X. A revision of the old-world Blattinae belonging to the Polyzosteria group. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 2, 253–310.
  • Shelford, R.W.C. (1910) Orthoptera. Fam. Blattidae, subfam. Epilamprinae. Genera Insectorum, 101, 1–21. Available at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/105318#page/103/mode/1up
  • Stål, C. (1874) Recherches sur Le Systéme des Blattaires. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 2(13), 1–18.
  • Stål, C. (1877) Orthoptera nova ex Insulis Philippinis descripsit. Öfversigt af Kongl. Vet. Akad. Förhandlingar., 34(10), 33–58.
  • Tepper, J.G.O. (1893) The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Trans. R. Soc. S. Austral., 17, 25–126.

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genus1045
species45056101