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Melanozosteria nitida (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)

black cockroach

Melanozosteria nitida (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865): Copyright David Rentz. Platyzosteria nitida. Cape Tribulation, Australia. (Otu).
Melanozosteria nitida (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865): Copyright David Rentz. Platyzosteria nitida. Cape Tribulation, Australia. (Otu).
Melanozosteria nitida (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865): Holotype, unsexed, dorsal. BMNH(E)#878036. (Otu).
Melanozosteria nitida (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865): Holotype, unsexed, ventral. BMNH(E)#878036. (Otu).
Melanozosteria nitida (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865): Holotype, unsexed, labels. BMNH(E)#878036. (Otu).
Melanozosteria nitida (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865): Holotype, unsexed, labels, reverse. BMNH(E)#878036. (Otu).
Melanozosteria nitida (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865): (Otu).

Nomenclature (9)

  • Polyzosteria (Platyzosteria) nitida Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865: 214.

    Lectotype; male; b6bed948-6307-4785-b008-11699a32bfce; deposited at: Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien (NHMW); Indonesia: Maluku Utara

  • Periplaneta polita Walker, 1868: 139.
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  • Melanozosteria nitida (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865) in Princis, 1966: 569.
  • Melanozosteria nitida (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865) in Fritzsche, 2001 Ecology

Nomenclature references (8)

  • Bruner, L. (1916) Notes on the orthopteroid insects of the Fiji Islands. 3, 148–168.
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1865) Nouveau Système des Blattaires. G. Braumüller, Vienna, 426 pp. 13 pls.
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  • Fritzsche, I. (2001) Observations on Melanozosteria nitida (Brunner v. Wattenwyl, 1865) in its natural habitat in Thailand (Dictyoptera; Blattodea, Blattidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift, 111(11), 331–332.
  • 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
  • Princis, K. (1966) Blattariae: Suborbo [sic] Blattoidea. Fam.: Blattidae, Nocticolidae. In Beier (Ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, s'Gravenhage. Issue 8, pp. 402–614.
  • 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.
  • Stål, C. (1877) Orthoptera nova ex Insulis Philippinis descripsit. Öfversigt af Kongl. Vet. Akad. Förhandlingar., 34(10), 33–58.
  • 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.

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Latin: shining, bright.