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Achatiblatta Li & Wang & Wang 2018, gen. nov.
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Description
Genus Achatiblatta gen. nov.
Etymology. This compound word is derived from Latin nouns achates (agate) and blatta (cockroach), referring to the natural beauty of this genus. Feminine.
Diagnosis. Body size small in the subfamily, tarsus very short, hind tarsus shorter than half of tibia. Nymphs and females with broadened terga (including supra-anal plate) extending beyond sterna.
Type species. Achatiblatta achates gen. & sp. nov..
Distribution. Hainan Island.
Notes
Published as part of Li, Xin-Ran, Wang, Li-Li & Wang, Zong-Qing, 2018, Rediscovered and new perisphaerine cockroaches from SW China with a review of subfamilial diagnosis (Blattodea: Blaberidae), pp. 251-290 in Zootaxa 4410 (2) on page 282, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4410.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1221512
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Additional details
Biodiversity
- Family
- Blaberidae
- Genus
- Achatiblatta
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Blattodea
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Li & Wang & Wang
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Achatiblatta Li, Wang & Wang, 2018