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Litoblatta brasiliensis

  • 1. Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental, FCEN-UBA. 4 piso Pabellón 2. Intendente Güiraldes 2160. (C 1428 EGA). CABA, Argentina.
  • 2. Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico e Investigación en Endemo-epidemias. Administración Nacional de Laboratorios e Institutos de Salud " Dr. Carlos G. Malbrán ". Paseo Colón 568. (1063) CABA, Argentina. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7008 - 9181 Departamento de Producción Animal, FAUBA. Av. San Martín 4453 (C 1417 DSE) CABA, Argentina.

Description

Litoblatta brasiliensis (Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865)

(Figs. 27–33, 72)

Ischnoptera brasiliensis Brunner von Wattenwyl 1865: 130, tab III. fig. 12, Loboptera laurenziana Giglio-Tos 1897: 2, Litoblatta brasiliensis Hebard 1921: 238, pl. 10, figs. 14–17. Litoblatta brasiliensis Crespo & Valverde 2008: 173, fig.16, Litoblatta brasiliensis Crespo et al. 2010: 7,8, 24, fig. 3.

Material examined. ARGENTINA. 2♁, locality, date and coll. missing ( MLP ) . Province of Córdoba: ♁, locality missing, 20/XI/1948, López P. coll. (IFML). Province of Corrientes: ♁, San Cayetano, II /2009, Patittucci L. coll. (FCEN); 2♁, Departamento T. de Apóstol, Manantiales, XI/1946, coll. missing, (IFML). Province of La Rioja: ♁, locality missing, 28/X/1930, Gómez M. coll. (MACN). Province of Salta: ♁, Forestal (35 km from J.B. González), 18/XII/1979, Leg. Turk S. & Fonollat P. (IFML).

Diagnosis. Right paraproct with a group of long spines, apically divergent (Fig. 28). Right stylus with rounded apex (Figs. 29–30). R1P with a quadrangular scale zone sz distally (Figs. 33, 72).

Male. Measurements in mm. N= 8. PL: 3.00‾3.66; TeL: 12.61‾15.27; TL: 15.43‾18.33; IO: 0.70‾0.80; IOc: 0.40‾0.80; IA: 0.80‾0.90. Supra anal plate apical margin with a medial notch (Fig. 27). Right stylus with rounded apex (Figs. 29–30). Right paraproct with a group of long spines, apically divergent (Fig. 28). R1P with a quadrangular scale zone sz distally (Figs. 31–33, 72).

Female. Apterous, described by Hebard 1921. Our female specimens could not be associated with males.

Distribution. Argentina-Provinces of Córdoba, Corrientes, La Rioja and Salta.

Notes

Published as part of Valverde, Alejandra Del Carmen & Crespo, Francisco A., 2021, Four new species of Litoblatta from Argentina with a key to species based on males (Blattaria: Ectobiidae: Blattellinae), pp. 553-568 in Zootaxa 4941 (4) on page 560, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4941.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/4595688

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
IFML , II, FCEN , MACN , MLP , T, IFML
Event date
1930-10-28 , 1948-11-20 , 1979-12-18
Family
Ectobiidae
Genus
Litoblatta
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Blattodea
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Brunner von Wattenwyl
Species
brasiliensis
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1930-10-28 , 1948-11-20 , 1979-12-18
Taxonomic concept label
Litoblatta brasiliensis (von, 1865) sec. Valverde & Crespo, 2021

References

  • Brunner von Wattenwyl, C. (1865) Nouveau Systeme des Blattaires. Braumuller, C., Vienne, 426 pp.
  • Hebard, M. (1921) South American Blattidae from the Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France. Proceedings Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia, 73 (2), 193 - 304.
  • Crespo, F. A. & A. C. Valverde. (2008) Blattaria. In: Claps, L. E., Debandi, G. & Roig-Junent, S. (Eds.), Biodiversidad de artropodos argentinos. Vol. 2. Sociedad Entomologica Argentina, Mendoza, pp. 167 - 179.
  • Crespo, F. A., Valverde, A. C. & Iglesias, M. S. (2010) Catalogue of Blattaria (Insecta) from Argentina. Zootaxa, 2726 (1), 1 - 33. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2726.1.1