Sublobate Cockroach Platyzosteria sublobata (Princis, 1954)
Fauna Portal species: 523
Platyzosteria sublobata female, dorsal (HBI N2525-4; Barrow Island, Western Australia)
Image: Alexander Greenhill (2025)
Fauna Portal Image No. 12609Diagnosis
(after Mackerras 1968): Medium-sized, oval, slightly convex, minutely nodular, with vestigial tegmina separated from mesonotum for about one-quarter of its length; light to dark reddish-brown with pale coxal borders.
Mackerras (1968) placed this species in Melanozosteria, but it has recently been transferred to Platyzosteria.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Northern Territory
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(1968): Australia Blattidae (Blattodea). VIII. The Platyzosteria group; subgenus Melanozosteria Stal. Australian Journal of Zoology. 16: 237 - 331
(1967): Australian Blattidae (Blattodea). VII. The Platyzosteria group; general remarks and revision of the subgenera Platyzosteria Brunner and Leptozosteria Tepper. Australian Journal of Zoology. 15: 1207 - 1298