Slender Cockroaches

Eppertia Shaw, 1925

Type species: Lepidophora furcata Tepper, 1895

Fauna Portal Genus Number: 397

(after Mackerras 1965): Medium-sized to large, apterous Polyzosteriini, like Zonioploca, but more thickset; with all thoracic margins thickened in the furcata-group.

(after Rentz 2014): Characterised by the acute angles of the seventh tergite that form long spines; species elongate, apterous, medium-sized and pronotum with the margin raised forming a rim.

Cockroach Species File: https://cockroach.speciesfile.org/otus/862777/overview

FP-3820

Publications

Mackerras MJ (1965): Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). III. Revision of the genera Zonioploca Stal and Eppertia Shaw. Australian Journal of Zoology. 13: 903 - 928

Rentz D (2014): A guide to the cockroaches of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood. 318