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Eurycotis opaca (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)

opaque stinking cockroach
Eurycotis opaca (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865): Copyright Josef Dvorák. Eurycotis opaca. (Otu).
Eurycotis opaca (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865): Copyright Josef Dvorák. Eurycotis opaca. (Otu).
CollectionObject 1587415; MNHN(SF IMPORT DUPLICATE) MNHN-EP-EP871, c1891f28-110c-41b9-b2b0-b4d5190c69df: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0/MNHN - Depraetere Marion - 2014. Syntype, male, of cabrerae Bolívar, 1881. Specimen number: MNHN-EP-EP871. http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/ep/ep871. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1587415; MNHN(SF IMPORT DUPLICATE) MNHN-EP-EP871, c1891f28-110c-41b9-b2b0-b4d5190c69df: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0/MNHN - Depraetere Marion - 2014. Syntype, male, of cabrerae Bolívar, 1881. Specimen number: MNHN-EP-EP871. http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/ep/ep871. (CollectionObject).
CollectionObject 1587415; MNHN(SF IMPORT DUPLICATE) MNHN-EP-EP871, c1891f28-110c-41b9-b2b0-b4d5190c69df: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0/MNHN - Depraetere Marion - 2014. Syntype, male, of cabrerae Bolívar, 1881. Specimen number: MNHN-EP-EP871. http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/ep/ep871. (CollectionObject).

Nomenclature (7)

  • Polyzosteria opaca Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865: 216.
  • Polyzosteria finschiana Saussure, 1873 in Saussure, 1872: 106.
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  • Eurycotis opaca (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865) in Princis, 1966: 552.
  • Polyzosteria finschiana Saussure, 1873 in Hollier, Marshall, Legendre & Poggi, 2023: 81.

Nomenclature references (5)

  • Bolívar, I. (1881) Notas entomológicas. II. Descripcion de tres nuevos ortópteros de la familia de los blátidos. Anal. Soc. esp. Hist. nat., 10, 354–359.
  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1865) Nouveau Système des Blattaires. G. Braumüller, Vienna, 426 pp. 13 pls.
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  • Hollier, J., Marshall, J.A., Legendre, F. & Poggi, R. (2023) An annotated list of the Blattodea (Insecta) described by Henri de Saussure. Part 3: the Blattidae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 130(1), 77–88. https://doi.org/10.35929/rsz.0089
  • Princis, K. (1966) Blattariae: Suborbo [sic] Blattoidea. Fam.: Blattidae, Nocticolidae. In M. Beier (Ed.). Orthopterorum Catalogus. Pars 8. W. Junk, s'Gravenhage [The Hague]. pp. 402–614.
  • Saussure, H.de (1872) Mélanges orthoptérologiques. IVme fascicule. Mantides et Blattides. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève, 23, 1–164. [1873]

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Etymology:

Latin: dark, shaded, opaque.