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Platyzosteria novaeseelandiae (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)

Platyzosteria novaeseelandiae (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865): Copyright Paul Brock. Maoriblatta novaezealandiae, Black Cockroacch. Rapaura Water Gardens, New Zealand. (Otu).
Platyzosteria novaeseelandiae (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865): Copyright Paul Brock. Maoriblatta novaezealandiae, Black Cockroacch. Rapaura Water Gardens, New Zealand. (Otu).
Platyzosteria novaeseelandiae (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865): Lectotype, male, dorsal. BMNH(E)#877985. (Otu).
Platyzosteria novaeseelandiae (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865): Lectotype, male, ventral. BMNH(E)#877985. (Otu).
Platyzosteria novaeseelandiae (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865): Lectotype, male, labels. BMNH(E)#877985. (Otu).
Platyzosteria novaeseelandiae (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865): Lectotype, male, labels, reverse. BMNH(E)#877985. (Otu).
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Nomenclature (15)

  • Polyzosteria (Platyzosteria) novaeseelandiae Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865: 218.
  • Periplaneta fortipes Walker, 1868: 137.
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  • Platyzosteria (Melanozosteria) novaeseelandiae (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865) in Johns, 1970: 66-69.
  • Platyzosteria novaeseelandiae (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865) in Morgan-Richards & Trewick, 2025: 70-72.

Nomenclature references (9)

  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1865) Nouveau Système des Blattaires. G. Braumüller, Vienna, 426 pp. 13 pls.
  • Hutton, F.W. (1881) In Catalogues of the New Zealand Diptera, Orthoptera, Hymenoptera; with Descriptions of the Species. New Zealand Government, Wellington. 1–132 pp.
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  • Johns, P.M. (1970) Knowledge of Orthoptera, Blattaria and Dermaptera of New Zealand. 4(3), 66–69.
  • Mackerras, M.J. (1968) Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VIII. The Platyzosteria group; subgenus Melanozosteria Stål. Australian Journal of Zoology, 16, 237–331.
  • Morgan-Richards, M. & Trewick, S.A. (2025) Clarification of cockroach names; Platyzosteria not Maoriblatta. The Weta: News Bulletin of Entomological Society of New Zealand, 58, 69–72.
  • Princis, K. (1966) Blattariae: Suborbo [sic] Blattoidea. Fam.: Blattidae, Nocticolidae. In Beier (Ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, s'Gravenhage. Issue 8, pp. 402–614.
  • Princis, K. (1966) Kleine Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Blattarien und ihrer Verbreitung. IX. Opuscula Entomologica. Edidit Societas Entomologica Lundensis, 31(1-2), 43–60.
  • Tepper, J.G.O. (1893) The Blattariae of Australia and Polynesia. Trans. R. Soc. S. Austral., 17, 25–126.
  • 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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