Northern Balta Balta fratercula Hebard, 1943
Fauna Portal species: 14531
Balta fratercula male, dorsal (HBI N37239-2; Barrow Island - dead on cargo)
Image: Alexander Greenhill (2026)
Fauna Portal Image No. 13556Diagnosis
(after Hebard 1943): This insect is very closely related to B. godeffroyi, differing only in having each side of the face buffy, the vertical blackish brown median area thus suggesting that of B. papua, but in the present case extending from the apex of the clypeus to the point of the least width between the eyes, above which the interocular area and occiput are buffy.
The specimen illustrated here is only tentative included in B. fratercula based on images in Rentz (2014) and pending examination of the male genitalia.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(1943): Australian Blattidae of the subfamilies Chorisoneurinae and Ectobiinae (Orthoptera). Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 1: 1 - 129
(2014): A guide to the cockroaches of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood. 318