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Frumentiforma Li & Wang & Wang 2018, gen. nov.
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Genus Frumentiforma gen. nov.
Etymology. This compound word is derived from Latin nouns frumentum (a grain) and forma (shape, form), referring to the shape of females. Feminine.
Diagnosis. Body size small in the subfamily, slender, cylindrical. Head large, wider than half of body width, eyes far apart.
Type species. Frumentiforma frumentiformis gen. & sp. nov..
Distribution. Hainan, Guangxi.
Remarks. We examined the photos of the male lectotype (in OUM) of Glyptopeltis wallacei Hanitsch, and G. wallacei may be a member of Frumentiforma gen. nov.. But a clear inclusion requires a thorough examination of the specimen.
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 pages 284-285, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4410.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/1221512
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Additional details
Biodiversity
- Family
- Blaberidae
- Genus
- Frumentiforma
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Blattodea
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Li & Wang & Wang
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Frumentiforma Li, Wang & Wang, 2018